Exit Fix for Kodi Raspbian built

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Hi I am a beginner coder and i got tired seeing a blank screen on exit when i am using Kodi on Raspbian so i came up with a fix.
This is a fix for

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http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc

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My Kodi launcher script.

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#!/bin/bash
setterm -cursor off
mkdir -p ~/.kodi
clear
/usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone 
setterm -cursor on

kodi-standalone runs in tty7 and it appears that it leaves a blank screen. To fix this, run

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sudo nano /usr/bin/kodi-standalone

Delete or comment out the last three lines, so they look like this:

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#VT="$(fgconsole)"
#chvt 7
#chvt "$VT"

and save it.

When you try to "Quit ", Kodi appears to leave a blank screen.
Kodi log shows

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WARNING: Attempted to remove window 10013 from the window manager when it didn't exist

I made 2 scripts to fix this error.
The first script:

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sudo nano /home/pi/exitfix.sh

and put

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#!/bin/bash
find /home/pi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log  -type f -exec egrep -w "Attempted to remove window 10013" {} \;  > /home/pi/exitfix2.txt

The second script:

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sudo nano /home/pi/exitfix2.sh

and put

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#!/bin/bash

    exitfix=$(cat  /home/pi/exitfix2.txt| awk 'NR==1' | tail -c 6)

     if [ $exitfix = "exist" ]; then
      sudo killall /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin  && sudo rm -r /home/pi/exitfix2.txt  /home/pi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log
fi

I now use crontab to run these script every minute

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sudo crontab -e

and put

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*/1 * * * * /home/pi/exitfix.sh
*/1 * * * * sudo sh  /home/pi/exitfix2.sh

[Fght]

1. in what directory to put these?
exitfix.sh
exitfix2.sh

2. and this is how the crontab should look like?

http://postimg.org/image/nizi1cozp/

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Hi yes that's how crontab suppose to look.
That script runs every minute.

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sudo nano /home/pi/exitfix.sh

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sudo nano /home/pi/exitfix2.sh

The home directory.

If you want kodi to instantly get back out of the black screen you can put this script in crontab and delete the one minute cronjobs out of crontab.
Do this:

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sudo nano /home/pi/fastkodiexit.sh

and put this in

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while [ 1 ];
do
 sudo sh /home/pi/exitfix.sh & /home/pi/exitfix2.sh
  sleep 1;
done

Now do

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sudo chmod +x fastkodiexit.sh

Then put this in crontab

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@reboot  sudo sh /home/pi/fastkodiexit.sh

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so you said i'm goog to go if i put both first files in the home directory........!?

[Fght]

sorry,
i did it but my tv still turning off....... when i exit kodi

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sorry,
i did it but my tv still turning off....... when i exit kodi

If your TV turning off then you have CEC enable.
To disable CEC in kodi go to system settings then go to input devices you will see "Peripherals" click on that and a box will appear saying cec adapter. Now Click on that and where you see enable click on that to disable the cec adapter and press OK.

Also you might want to put this in your config file

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

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hdmi_ignore_cec=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

[Fght]

in what group to put this?:
hdmi_ignore_cec=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

under 'noobs auto generated settings?

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in what group to put this?:
hdmi_ignore_cec=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

under 'noobs auto generated settings?

Put it in the config.txt file sis you read the post? I showed you how to edit the config.txt file so you can put them in.

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http://postimg.org/image/ntpas7iin/

where exactly inside the file? there are many sections...

[DirkS]

http://postimg.org/image/ntpas7iin/

where exactly inside the file? there are many sections...

There are no real sections there. You can put it anywhere you like...

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what do these actually do?
hdmi_ignore_cec=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

i did the first thing you guys instructed me but i'm wondering what does the config file editing do..

[DirkS]

what do these actually do?
hdmi_ignore_cec=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

i did the first thing you guys instructed me but i'm wondering what does the config file editing do..

Described in the RPF docs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... fig-txt.md

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ok i've found it there...

one more thing...

should it take some significant amount of time until the kodi is exiting? i think you said before that i can change how much time it takes until it is shutting down (kodi)...

because after hitting exit everything freezes and after some time i can see the gui again...

[DirkS]

because after hitting exit everything freezes and after some time i can see the gui again...

Yes, it can take a while. Never measured it, but it can take long enough to make you wonder if it *does*.

[Fght]

thank you

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ok i've found it there...

one more thing...

should it take some significant amount of time until the kodi is exiting? i think you said before that i can change how much time it takes until it is shutting down (kodi)...

because after hitting exit everything freezes and after some time i can see the gui again...

Read the fastkodiexit script tutorial i previously posted.

[vankogt]

Here is my working fix.

I start kodi from this script:

#!/bin/bash
kodi -fs && sleep 1 && sudo service lightdm restart

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Here is my working fix.

I start kodi from this script:

#!/bin/bash
kodi -fs && sleep 1 && sudo service lightdm restart

I tried your script and i can confirm that this does not work.

[dom]

The exit hang has been fixed on Kido master branch and my helix_rbp_backports branch.

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Really then how can i compile it?

[gkreidl]

Someone should tell Michael Gorven about the fix and ask him to update his repository, (I can't, because his spam filter doesn't like my IP).

[vankogt]

Here is my working fix.

I start kodi from this script:

#!/bin/bash
kodi -fs && sleep 1 && sudo service lightdm restart

I tried your script and i can confirm that this does not work.

It works perfect on my Pi2. I start from desktop icon

[juppiter89]

I think this is a better and simplier fix

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sudo nano exitfix.sh

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#!/bin/bash

if [[ $(tail -1 /home/pi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | grep "application stopped...") ]]
then
        killall kodi.bin
        mv /home/pi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log /home/pi/.kodi/temp/kodi.old.log
        chvt 2 && sleep 1 && chvt 1
fi

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sudo nano /etc/crontab

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*/1 * * * * root bash /home/pi/exitfix.sh

[Pixa]

Any news regarding this fix ?

[gkreidl]

Any news regarding this fix ?

No. There was a posting on kodi.tv forum a while ago (by popcornmix) who proposed that a fixed version should be added to the Raspbian repository, but that hasn't happened yet.