XBMC freezes on exit

Question

Hi, I have XMBC installed on my arch system and everytime I want to exit it, it entirely freezes and I have to kill it from system monitor (it happens every time so now I run it in windowed mode so I wont have to restart comp every time I test something).
program isnt laggy or anything while Im at it, its just when I exit that it totally freezes, the log states its a python or pulseaudio error of some kind but I have no idea on how to proceed.
Here is the final lines of log:
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237722112 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237722112 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237476352 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237476352 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237476352 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237730304 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
02:06:51 T:139798811465760 M:7237689344 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
02:06:54 T:139798498129664 M:7237787648 WARNING: FillBuffer: curl failed with code 28
02:06:54 T:139798498129664 M:7237787648 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
02:07:09 T:139798498129664 M:7237672960 ERROR: DeleteFile - cant delete file </home/x1r1/.xbmc/addons/packages/metadata.common.themoviedb.org-1.1.0.zip>. trying lower case </home/x1r1/.xbmc/addons/packages/metadata.common.themoviedb.org-1.1.0.zip>
02:07:29 T:139798498129664 M:7233556480 ERROR: DeleteFile - cant delete file </home/x1r1/.xbmc/addons/packages/script.recentlyadded-2.0.5.zip>. trying lower case </home/x1r1/.xbmc/addons/packages/script.recentlyadded-2.0.5.zip>
02:07:29 T:139798811465760 M:7233556480 NOTICE: Storing total System Uptime
02:07:29 T:139798811465760 M:7233556480 NOTICE: Saving settings
02:07:29 T:139798811465760 M:7233556480 NOTICE: stop all
02:07:29 T:139798811465760 M:7233556480 NOTICE: ES: Stopping event server
02:07:30 T:139798458251008 M:7233593344 NOTICE: ES: UDP Event server stopped
02:07:30 T:139798475036416 M:7233593344 NOTICE: DS: DBUS server stopped
02:07:30 T:139798811465760 M:7233593344 NOTICE: stop dvd detect media
02:07:30 T:139798811465760 M:7233593344 NOTICE: stop sap announcement listener
02:07:30 T:139798811465760 M:7233593344 NOTICE: clean cached files!
02:07:30 T:139798811465760 M:7233593344 NOTICE: unload skin
02:07:30 T:139798811465760 M:7233593344 NOTICE: stop python
Is pulseaudio a requirement for XBMC? Im using alsa only
Also important note, I am using the nouveau drivers
hope you guys can help!
cheers

Answer 1

UPDATE
Just been messing aroud and I have discovered this:
I installed Xbmc on my main desktop and exit/shutdown/restart all worked perfectly.
Thinking it may have been a corrupt download I did the following on my media box:
pacman -Rs xbmc
pacman -Scc
pacman -S xbmc
Removing Xbmc and purging my package cache to force a download when I re-installed it
Still no go.
So then I tried on my netbook.
Xbmc installed and locked up on exit/shutdown/reboot as on my media box.
The main difference I could come up with between my netbook/media box and the main desktop is the first 2 are intel video chips (xf86-video-intel), whereas my main desktop is nvidia (closed drivers).
So I uninstalled xf86-video-intel from the media box and replaced it with xf86-video-vesa. Upon booting Xbmc, exit/shutdown/reboot are now working.
So it appears to be an intel driver or X combined with intel issue - at least for me.
Hopefully this can promt someone with some more know-how into a solution.
Cheers.
UPDATE
A little more investigation and it seems to be DRI (in my case) disabling DRI solves the problem, but of course, everything slows to a crawl. And it does make sense that it is the intel driver, as in my media box, all was well until I got the 16 June update to the driver. Since then, it went pear shaped.
Still investigating........
Last edited by Padfoot (2011-07-09 08:55:47)