Kodi won't open from main menu when roms are stored on network

BuZz

@jrhessey is that ES log from after launching Kodi ? I don't see any reference - looks like a log after just booting into ES.

runcommand.log is stored in /dev/shm/runcommand.log after launching Kodi from ES - it will be gone after a reboot.

Without a log of the error you are seeing I cannot advise further.

jrhessey

@BuZz

Yeah that's after trying to run Kodi, all I see is that

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi/kodi.sh permission denied error and it goes back to the kodi screen

The only thing I saw about kodi was at the beginning of the file with the invalid file system. I'll try again this evening and see if I get anything different. I may try doing an image myself on a different SD card just to test it.

BuZz

Did you update retropie-setup script and reinstall Kodi from the retropie-setup menu ?

what is the output of grep -A5 "<name>ports" {$HOME/.emulationstation,/etc/emulationstation}/es_systems.cfg

are you launching kodi from the ports menu ?

jrhessey

@backstander

Sorry just noticed your reply

FSTAB below

proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
/dev/mmcblk0p2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
//192.168.10.131/RetroPie/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms cifs username=user,password=password,users,_netdev,x-systemd.automount 0 0
//192.168.10.131/video /home/kodi/videos cifs username=user,password=password,users,_netdev,x-systemd.automount 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi/kodi.sh below

kodi-standalone

BuZz

@jrhessey Please format your post (use a code block - http://commonmark.org/help/)

jrhessey

@BuZz

I did not run the update script. I did INSTALL Kodi from the retropie setup menu.

grep -A5 "<name>ports" {$HOME/.emulationstation,/etc/emulationstation}/es_systems.cfg

/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg:     <name>ports</name>
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <fullname>Ports</fullname>
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports</path>
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <command>%ROM%</command>
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <platform>pc</platform>
--
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg:    <name>ports</name>
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <fullname>Ports</fullname>
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports</path>
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <command>%ROM%</command>
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg-    <platform>pc</platform>

I am trying to launch Kodi from the main rom menu. Followed the steps in the retropie wiki to create the menu option.

jrhessey

@BuZz
Sorry, I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure how to format that so it wasn't all screwed up. Overlooked the ? next to compose.

BuZz

@jrhessey

So - you are maintaining your own es_systems.cfg - it's also out of date, as latest retropie-setup will call bash directly for ports (update retropie-setup and re-install kodi).

To launch kodi via script on a usb drive formatted as a windows fs (fat32/exfat/ntfs etc) you will need to change it to <command>bash %ROM%</command> (retropie-setup does this when updating a port, but you won't get the changes since you are manually managing the config)

If you are launching it as a standalone system, you will also need to make a similar change

  <system>
    <fullname>Kodi</fullname>
    <name>kodi</name>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/kodi</path>
    <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
    <command>bash %ROM%</command>
    <platform>kodi</platform>
    <theme>kodi</theme>
  </system>

note the file to edit would be /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - but bear in mind you will need to keep this file manually synced with /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg which is automatically managed by RetroPie-Setup.

jrhessey

@BuZz

I swore I tried bash in front of the %ROM%. I went back to check and it's not there. I must not have saved it correctly. I will give that a shot. If that does fix it, I'm sorry.

When I was stepping through this howto, I wondered what it would affect when they said it would be maintained manually. Now I know... Thanks!

P.S. They literally just updated the KODI wiki with bash %rom% instead of %rom$ in this section of code. HA!

BuZz

@jrhessey I updated the wiki :)