Starting Boxee will not bring up log-in screen

[aront]

When I start Boxee with 0.9.2908 the screen goes black and nothing happens. Ever. I have to force quit the application using remote log-in (SSH) to quit the application. This happens 98% of the time. I am running Boxee on a 10.5.4 version of OS X on an Intel Mac mini.

[aront]

It seems the screen is only black in full-screen mode. If I switch to windowed mode the screen appears normally.

Switching back to full-screen now yields the "black screen of death" 100% of the time.

[tsella]

very interesting! mac mini is probably the most used/tested platform with boxee, and this is the first report of its kind.

please provide the specs of this mini and what other apps you're running alongside.

[aront]

System details:
Mac mini 1.83CD/2X512/80GB/COMBO

All running processes:
AirPort Base Station Agent
AppCleaner Daemon
AppCleaner Helper
AppleFileServer
AppleVNCServer
ATSServer
autofsd
blued
configd
coreaudiod
coreservicesd
DirectoryService
diskarbitrationd
distnoted
Dock
dynamic_pager
DynDNSUpdaterService
Finder
Folder Actions Dispatcher
Front Row
fseventsd
HazelHelper
hidd
httpd
httpd
httpd
ImportHelper
iTunesHelper
kdcmond
KernelEventAgent
kextd
krb5kdc
launchd
launchd
loginwindow
mDNSResponder
mds
mdworker
mdworker
mysqld
notifyd
ntpd
pboard
racoon
RFBRegisterMDNS
securityd
sh
socketfilterfw
Spotlight
sshd
sshd
syslogd
SystemStarter
SystemUIServer
update
usbmuxd
UserEventAgent
VNCPrivilegeProxy
WindowServer

[tsella]

please provide output of ~/Library/Logs/xbmc.log

i also see that Front Row is showing up, while our helper does not. can you try a reboot, and run boxee before anything else?

[aront]

Console output can be found here: http://utilitybase.com/paste/8168

ps output after restarting w/o other apps...
launchd
kextd
DirectoryService
notifyd
syslogd
configd
distnoted
mDNSResponder
securityd
ntpd
httpd
update
SystemStarter
RFBRegisterMDNS
mds
loginwindow
KernelEventAgent
kdcmond
hidd
fseventsd
dynamic_pager
diskarbitrationd
blued
autofsd
socketfilterfw
AppCleaner Daemon
krb5kdc
coreservicesd
ocspd
WindowServer
httpd
VNCPrivilegeProxy
mdworker
launchd
racoon
sh
mysqld
DynDNSUpdaterService
Folder Actions Dispatcher
AirPort Base Station Agent
AppleVNCServer
Spotlight
UserEventAgent
Dock
pboard
SystemUIServer
ATSServer
Finder
coreaudiod
iTunesHelper
HazelHelper
usbmuxd
AppCleaner Helper
mdworker
boxeeservice
sshd
sshd
-bash
ps