Segmentation Fault

[cr4z3d]

Ok, I had Boxee running smoothly on a default install of Ubuntu 8.04. I then got my remote working by configuring lirc and that's when I decided I needed to get TV out working (S-video). To do this I had to install the ATI proprietary drivers and do a change in the bios to only have TV out. Ubuntu finally used my TV to display but clicked to start Boxee and nothing appeared. So I tried from a terminal and got a "Segmentation Fault" error and a log to check. Here's the log:


01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Mapping drive Q to /opt/boxee
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Mapping drive U to /home/media/.boxee
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Mapping drive T to /home/media/.boxee/UserData
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Mapping drive H to /home/media
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: GNU/Linux. Built on Oct 23 2008 (SVN:3964)
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Q is mapped to: /opt/boxee
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: The executable running is: /opt/boxee/Boxee
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Log File is located: /tmp/media-xbmc.log
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
01:58:04 T:3068188512 M:325582848 NOTICE: Setup SDL
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:325066752 INFO: Available videomodes:
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:325066752 INFO: Found mode: 800x600
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324919296 INFO: Drives are mapped
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324919296 NOTICE: load settings...
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324919296 NOTICE: Mapping drive P to /home/media/.boxee/UserData
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324919296 NOTICE: loading /home/media/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 INFO: Using analog output
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 INFO: AC3 pass through is enabled
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 INFO: DTS pass through is enabled
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 NOTICE: Checking resolution 12
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 NOTICE: /home/media/.boxee/UserData/sources.xml
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 ERROR: Load Error loading /home/media/.boxee/UserData/sources.xml: Line 0, Failed to open file
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:324661248 INFO: Checking skinpath existence, and existence of keymap.xml:Q:\skin...
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:323629056 INFO: GLX Info: NOT Using destination window
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:323629056 WARNING: GLX: No Multisample buffers available, FSAA disabled
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:323629056 ERROR: GLX Error: No compatible framebuffers found
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:323629056 INFO: GL: Enabling VSYNC
01:58:05 T:3068188512 M:323633152 INFO: load language info file: /opt/boxee/language/English/langinfo.xml

So it looks like it couldn't open an XML file and I'm nto sure what the GLX errors are. Any help would be very appreciated since this is my main media computer.

EDIT: upon further investigations, that XML file does not exist in the folder it is looking in. Take a look here:



drwxr-xr-x 3 media media 4096 2008-11-20 00:33 Database
-rw-r--r-- 1 media media 21475 2008-11-19 23:54 guisettings.xml
-rw-r----- 1 media media 3879 2008-11-19 16:36 Lircmap.xml
drwxr-xr-x 5 media media 4096 2008-11-19 16:36 playlists
drwxr-xr-x 3 media media 4096 2008-11-19 17:14 profiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 media media 1566 2008-11-19 23:54 profiles.xml
-rw-r----- 1 media media 1566 2008-11-19 23:54 profiles.xml.bak
-rw-r----- 1 media media 3722 2008-11-19 16:36 rtorrent.rc.linux
drwxr-xr-x 3 media media 4096 2008-11-19 22:15 script_data
drwxr-xr-x 2 media media 4096 2008-11-19 16:36 temp
-rw-r--r-- 1 media media 279 2008-11-20 00:33 tempboxee-cookies.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 media media 498 2008-11-19 17:22 Tempboxee-cookies.dat
drwxr-xr-x 7 media media 4096 2008-11-19 16:36 Thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 2 media media 4096 2008-11-19 16:36 visualisations

[jdarnold]

The sources file isn't the problem. You need to see if you have glx running. From the command line type in
glxinfo |grep direct

You should see direct rendering: Yes

[cr4z3d]

Yes I found that out after a quick search. Unfortunately it looks like the drivers for my card on linux are not up to par. I have a ATI Radeon 9100 IGP. If I use it to my monitor with the "radeon" drivers opengl works fine but as soon as I switch to S-video the drivers crap out and in order to get S-video working I had to force my BIOS to only use TV out and then Ubuntu defautls to using the vesa driver which of course does not support direct rendering and all that.. I guess I'll have to wait for the Windows version to really try out Boxee. Unfortunate, but there's nothing I can really do (my programming skills are no where near good enoough to make a new driver for my card)