Attempting to upgrade….no luck with advancedsettings.xml

Alright so to start I’m currently running 14.2, I haven’t upgraded in a while because it’s always a damn nightmare but I’m attempting this now and surprise surprise nothing is going as it should.

So I originally just attempted to go right to 16.1 and as soon as it tried to start it crashed immediately, so I figured screw it I’ll update to 15.2 first….same thing, however THE MOMENT I remove advancedsettings.xml from it, it will load up no problem. Now I have 3 machines running Kodi so I use mysql to sync everything, so I’ll stay at 14.2 if need be but there’s gotta be something I’m missing here.

My assumption based on the wiki is that when you upgrade it’s supposed to update the database as well, well if it wont’ even load with the xml file there how the hell is it supposed to do that.

I attempted to post <loglevel>2</loglevel> into the xml but have no freakin clue what I’m supposed to be looking at, the kodi.log file doesn’t say anything helpful and the dmp is just jibberish….

HELP