I have been trying to launch Kodi on my Raspbian Buster.
I did a fresh install of Raspbian Buster Lite and then installed Kodi.
sudo apt install kodi
As I don't need the GUI I think I just have to manually install a few dependencies for running Kodi as the only UI required app.
I followed the instruction here https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=192499 with a small adjustment to the location of the kodi.service to put it in /etc instead of /lib as they mention here.
Tried all following ways to launch Kodi.
kodi
kodi-standalone
sudo systemctl start kodi
All of them fail with same error. As people are saying there is no xserver required I anyhow tried installing xserver, but it still gives me same error.
Is there any expert out there who knows how to solve or point me in right direction?
On my previous Raspbian Stretch all was working fine, but don't recall if I did anything special 2 years ago, to make this work.
$ cat kodi_crashlog-20190715_212803.log
############## Kodi CRASH LOG ###############
################ SYSTEM INFO ################
Date: Mon 15 Jul 21:28:03 BST 2019
Kodi Options:
Arch: armv7l
Kernel: Linux 4.19.57-v7+ #1244 SMP Thu Jul 4 18:45:25 BST 2019
Release: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
############## END SYSTEM INFO ##############
############### STACK TRACE #################
############# END STACK TRACE ###############
################# LOG FILE ##################
21:27:33.630 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Starting Kodi from Debian (17.6 Debian package version: 2:17.6+dfsg1-4+b1). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi from Debian x32 build
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Kodi from Debian compiled from 2:17.6+dfsg1-4+b1 by GCC 8.2.0 for Linux ARM 32-bit version 4.18.20 (266772)
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Running on Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster), kernel: Linux ARM 32-bit version 4.19.57-v7+
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: FFmpeg version/source: 4.1.3-1+rpt1
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Host CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l), 4 cores available
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: ARM Features: Neon disabled
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/kodi
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/kodi
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://xbmcbinaddons/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/kodi/addons
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/pi/.kodi/userdata
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://envhome/ is mapped to: /home/pi
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/pi/.kodi
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/pi/.kodi/temp
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://logpath/ is mapped to: /home/pi/.kodi/temp
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/kodi/kodi.bin
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Local hostname: raspberrypi
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/pi/.kodi/temp//kodi.log
21:27:33.631 T:1831238192 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
21:27:33.637 T:1831238192 ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
21:27:33.701 T:1831238192 NOTICE: load settings...
21:27:33.743 T:1831238192 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to connect context
21:27:33.743 T:1831238192 NOTICE: PulseAudio might not be running. Context was not created.
21:27:33.777 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Found 1 Lists of Devices
21:27:33.777 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Enumerated ALSA devices:
21:27:33.777 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Device 1
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_deviceName : @
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_displayName : Default (bcm2835 ALSA bcm2835 ALSA)
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra:
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE,AE_FMT_U8
21:27:33.778 T:1831238192 NOTICE: m_streamTypes : No passthrough capabilities
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Default Video Player: VideoPlayer
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.
21:27:33.788 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Log level changed to "LOG_LEVEL_NORMAL"
21:27:33.789 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
21:27:33.789 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
21:27:33.789 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
21:27:33.789 T:1831238192 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
21:27:33.806 T:1831238192 NOTICE: Running database version Addons27
21:27:33.856 T:1831238192 NOTICE: ADDONS: Using repository repository.xbmc.org
21:27:33.905 T:1831238192 ERROR: X11 Error: No Display found
21:27:33.905 T:1831238192 FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init windowing system
############### END LOG FILE ################
############ END Kodi CRASH LOG #############
