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JSON-RPC play of smart playlists crashes Kodi

I'm using the yatse remote control interface and I select random playlist using the spotify plugin. The Json-RPC webserver crashes and I am no longer able to connect to the kodi instance without reboot. Here is what I see in the debug log: 16:29:33...

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KEY_STOP not resolving to keyname stop

Hello,
I've been poking around the source code trying to figure out what is going on here.
Not using LIRC (note, i couldn't type the real command in this case because cloudflare was marking it as an attack!)

Code:
[kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ pee-ess aux | grep lirc
kodiuser   786  0.0  0.0  10756  2216 pts/4    S+   17:38   0:00 grep lirc
[kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$

Have keymap loaded, button press is seen as KEY_STOP by both ir-keytable -t and showkeys
Code:
sudo ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
1485567603.504710: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x84747c
1485567603.504710: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_STOP(0x0080)
1485567603.504710: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
...
...
[kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ sudo showkey
kb mode was ?UNKNOWN?
[ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]

press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
keycode 128 press
keycode 128 release
[kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$

This looks correct based on https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel.../v4.10-rc5
Code:
#define KEY_STOP 128 /* AC Stop */

In Kodi, it seems that there are two look up tables, one to go from linux key to xbmc key (sym, i think?), here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...evices.cpp
Code:
xbmc/input/linux/LinuxInputDevices.cpp:  { KEY_STOP          , XBMCK_MEDIA_STOP  },

and then one to take the xbmc key (sym) and translate it into a 'keyname' here https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ytable.cpp
Code:
xbmc/input/XBMC_keytable.cpp:, { XBMCK_MEDIA_STOP,             0,    0, XBMCVK_MEDIA_STOP,          "stop" }

However, the lookup doesn't appear to complete successfully- the assigned keyname shown in Kodi log is '0':
Code:
17:54:21 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x88, sym: 0xff69, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
17:54:21 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: GetActionCode: Trying Hardy keycode for 0xf200
17:54:21 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 3 times.
17:54:21 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: OnKey: 0 (0xf200) pressed, action is

vs a working button (KEY_PLAY)
Code:
17:57:26 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0xd7, sym: 0x0155, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
17:57:26 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: OnKey: play_pause (0xf0bd) pressed, action is PlayPause


I think this has to be happening (or, not happening) in TranslateKey, in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...dStat.cpp, but i'm not clear how.


Keeping in mind my example has
Code:
17:54:21 T:140491042502144   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x88, sym: 0xff69, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0

This lookup i think should find something (from KeyboardStat.cpp):
Code:
// Continue by trying to match both the sym and unicode. This will identify
  // the majority of keypresses
  else if (KeyTableLookupSymAndUnicode(keysym.sym, keysym.unicode, &keytable))
  {
    vkey = keytable.vkey;
    ascii = keytable.ascii;
  }

Which using this lookup from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ytable.cpp
Code:
bool KeyTableLookupSymAndUnicode(uint16_t sym, uint16_t unicode, XBMCKEYTABLE* keytable)
{
  // If the sym being searched for is zero there will be no match (the
  // unicode can be zero if the sym is non-zero)
  if (sym == 0)
    return false;

  // Look up the sym and unicode in XBMCKeyTable
  for (int i = 0; i < XBMCKeyTableSize; i++)
  { if (sym == XBMCKeyTable[i].sym && unicode == XBMCKeyTable[i].unicode)
    { *keytable = XBMCKeyTable[i];
      return true;
    }
}

My unicode is zero, but have non-zero sym (0xff69)

This is where I get really confused, because the format of the sym in XBMCKeyTable seems to be like XBMCK_STOP, XBMCK_PAUSE, XBMCK_REWIND, but in the log the sym are 0xff69, 0x0013, and 0x0153 respectively.

What am i missing here?

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RC4 compile ends in errors … why?

Trying and failing to build RC4 on a RPi2 (Arch ARM). My build receipe works fine for RC3...

Code:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib \
    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/vc \
    -DCORE_SYSTEM_NAME=rbpi \
    -DWITH_CPU=cortex-a7 \
    -DENABLE_EVENTCLIENTS=ON \
    -DENABLE_OPENGL=OFF \
    -DENABLE_X11=OFF \
    -DENABLE_VAAPI=OFF \
    -DENABLE_VDPAU=OFF \
    -DLIRC_DEVICE=/run/lirc/lircd \
    ../xbmc/project/cmake

  make VERBOSE=1

Entire build log.

If I grep out 'error' from that log, I get a few key lines I think:
Code:
/scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/xbmc-17.0rc4-Krypton/tools/EventClients/Clients/WiiRemote/CWIID_WiiRemote.h:51:19: fatal error: cwiid.h: No such file or directory
distcc[11784] ERROR: compile /scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/xbmc-17.0rc4-Krypton/tools/EventClients/Clients/WiiRemote/CWIID_WiiRemote.cpp on ease/9 failed
/scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/xbmc-17.0rc4-Krypton/tools/EventClients/Clients/WiiRemote/CWIID_WiiRemote.h:51:19: fatal error: cwiid.h: No such file or directory
distcc[11784] ERROR: compile /scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/xbmc-17.0rc4-Krypton/tools/EventClients/Clients/WiiRemote/CWIID_WiiRemote.cpp on localhost failed
make[2]: *** [build/WiiRemote/CMakeFiles/kodi-wiiremote.dir/build.make:63: build/WiiRemote/CMakeFiles/kodi-wiiremote.dir/CWIID_WiiRemote.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:9944: build/WiiRemote/CMakeFiles/kodi-wiiremote.dir/all] Error 2
checking for gcc way to treat warnings as errors... no
  CC       src/error.lo
/scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/kodi-build/build/libdvd/src/dvdcss/src/error.c:1:0: warning: switch -mcpu=cortex-a7 conflicts with -march=armv7-a switch
/scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/kodi-build/build/libdvd/src/dvdcss/src/error.c:1:0: warning: switch -mcpu=cortex-a7 conflicts with -march=armv7-a switch
CC    libavcodec/error_resilience.o
CC    libavutil/error.o
INSTALL    scratch-nfs/PKGBUILDs/alarm/kodi-rbp-git/src/kodi-build/build/ffmpeg/src/ffmpeg/libavutil/error.h
make: *** [Makefile:139: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Is it that wiiremote that's killing it? How can I disable that?

EDIT: Seems as though having the cwiid package installed as a makedep allows the build to finish successfully.... this is a change from RC3 as stated. Also, this is not required when building for x86_64.

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