Kodi on OMV 3 won't start (board: ASRock N3150-ITX)

Hi!

First of all: I am aware of this topic and this one, but since there is a backport for Debian 8 which I try to use, I start this new topic. Probably the info here could also be interesting for Pheoxy's plans.

I'd like to test Kodi on my NAS. Ideally, I will be using an udev rule to start and stop Kodi when the HDMI channel is opened / closed by my TV. But that's still up in the air.

I set up a virtual machine (VirtualBox), installed OMV 3 and upgraded it to the newest version. Besides the VirtualBox guest extensions I installed an x server apt-get install xorg (which should also install the video drivers, right?) and alsa apt-get install alsa-base. After that I followed the instructions to install kodi from the backports repo. Starting kodi (xinit kodi-standalone) and playing a test .mkv-file went well, so I decided to give it a try on my real machine.

I took the same steps as above on my OMV 3.0.47 machine but for some reason kodi keeps crashing on startup. The x server itself launches (startx) and shows a terminal. Since I wasn't able to figure out what goes wrong with kodi I installed xfce4 and tried to launch it. However, also xfce4 crashes on startup and therefore the x server terminates.

Taking a closer look in the kodi log-file doesn't show any serious errors. The file just ends (unexpectedly) after the "GL_EXTENSIONS" line. Interestingly, the logfiles states this line GL_VENDOR = VMware, Inc.. Since I am not using an virtual machine I am quite confused about VMware as vendor. I expected to see Intel Corp. (or something like that) there.

This and the fact that also xfce crashes let's me to believe that this is not a Kodi problem. I rather think that something is wrong with the video drivers or some other incompatibility between Debian 8 and my motherboard. I should also mention that I have the 4.7 backports kernel installed. Has anyone with the ASRock N3150-ITX board tried to setup a desktop environment, Kodi, or any other graphical output in OMV 3? Or does anyone have ideas how to further investigate this issue?

Best,
Aiakos

As is seems this is indeed not a problem with Kodi, but with the video driver. Apperantly other people also experience issues like this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/…graphics-on-debian-jessie.

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an easy solution yet. A possible approach could be like this:

Zitat von devnsec

I was managed to solve the issue on Debian by installing mesa from jessie-backports. To be specific, I upgraded the following packages to the backports version and solved the issue: libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libwayland-egl1-mesa

I will probably try this when I have some spare time...

EDIT: This thread proposes a similar solution.