[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#697448: xbmc: hangs on startup with no clue on why

[Alexandre Rossi]

Package: xbmc
Version: 2:12.0~git20130102.7a6cb7f-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I wanted to try out xbmc on a headless box.

I launch a X server using a custom script [1]. mplayer for instance works
fine with this X server.

[1] http://sousmonlit.incube.tk/~niol/repositories/deejayd/file/tip/debian/deejayd.init

xbmc gives me a black screen (which replaces the root window background and
100% CPU usage. There is no clue in the debug logs of what is happening or what is wrong.

This happens with both the version in wheezy and the version in experimental.

xbmc works fine on my laptop. Maybe xbmc is searching for a daemon that it
cannot find ? A window manager?

My Graphics controller is an intel G41 :
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) G41

I tried to launch a window manager, dbus, pulseaudio, console-kit, nothing
changes.

How can I dig deeper into this?

Thanks,

Alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xbmc depends on:
ii  mesa-utils       8.0.1-2+b3
ii  python           2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-imaging   1.1.7-4
ii  python-support   1.0.15
ii  ttf-dejavu-core  2.33-3
ii  ttf-liberation   1.07.2-6
ii  x11-utils        7.7~1
ii  xbmc-bin         2:12.0~git20130102.7a6cb7f-1

xbmc recommends no packages.

xbmc suggests no packages.

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