Ever since I installed Beta 7 on my system running OS X 10.11.6 I have found that it crashes nearly every time I attempt to start it. I’ve had to restart it as many as 10 times.
I set it up to generate a debug log but after looking through it there is no way I want to post it publicly on a pasetbin site. However, in case it helps any, I can tell you that it crashes at different times during the startup process, usually while loading channels from the backends (there are two PVR backends running TVHeadEnd), but about four or five lines before the end of the debug log this line always appears:
15:22:09.177 T:123145307209728 ERROR: Create – fatal error creating thread- old thread id not null
Keep in mind that once in a while it does start up and run, but when it doesn’t that line appears somewhere, usually while it’s trying to load channels from the backends. When it doesn’t crash, it works great, and all channels from both backends appear in the channel list. Both backends are running TVHeadend so I had to use the process that’s been published on a few sites for duplicating and renaming the Tvheadend HTSP Client addon. This has always worked in previous versions; I won’t say it never crashed at startup, but the crashes were a lot rarer.
When I say “crash” I mean that Kodi closes and exits. I also see a different issue occasionally where Kodi freezes and has to be force quit, but that is rarer and I don’t think it’s the same problem.
I know some of the developers have the attitude that they won’t lift a finger to help without a full debug log and I don’t mind emailing one to an individual developer, but for reasons that would take too long to explain I do not want it to be viewable by anyone other than the developers (even if you see one you’ll probably wonder why, but I have my reasons). If that’s not possible then maybe this bug will never get fixed, or maybe someone else will post one publicly, but I won’t. I just wanted to let you know about this issue, in case you care. I will let you know that I am not running any addons that do not come from the official Kodi repository, in fact I am running very few addons at all since this is not my primary system for watching TV. I do use the Confluence skin since I didn’t care as much for the new one, if that makes any difference.
Anyway, I’m off to reinstall Beta 6 from Time Machine.