Bug#857309: kodi: 'kodi' user does not exist

Jonathan Michalon johndescs at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 14:53:39 UTC 2017


As a hint to other people who could read this:

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:23:24 +0100 Moritz Schmidt
<moritz+debian at mmnx.de> wrote:
> Yeah, a debconf question would be wonderful! I think that many prefer
> to just hit yes instead of setting it up on your own with all the
> hassle, but maybe I'm just lazy.

+1
Also, having the unit installed is kind of misleading, as if it was
saying "hey, I'm ready!". Leaving it in the example directory would be
better probably, alongside with a quick notice in the readme with
example adduser command and a reminder to not forget the audio group
(spent stupidly 30 minutes on this right before…).
Also I needed to go back to root-Xorg in my case (Xwrapper.config).

> > AFAIK the kodi-systemd-service way is preferred on constrained
> > systems where running even lightdm would waste too much memory,
> > but I have just found nodm [2] which could also help here.
> 
> If you don't have to - why would you want to use a DM? The 
> kodi-systemd-service starts kodi via xinit so why would you need that
> on a standalone-system?

Yeah seems much simpler without. I use it on a server, so no need to
stack more stuff.

Now it works nicely for me, thanks for the packaging :)

-- 
Jonathan



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