Could not run kodi container on pure wayland machine

[kanyck]

Trying to setup a HTPC. It's a fresh Void Linux install with wayland+weston+elogind on a spare NUC. (I want to add LMS there and probably some other stuff later on, that's why I did not used LibreELEC for this, which would be quite straightforward). So, weston starts okay and seemingly works (didn't go beyond the successful start for I actually don't need it). However I can't make the dockerized kodi start. My most successful test setup so far was like this x11docker -- wayland -- tty --gpu --alsa --homedir /home/docker which gets invalid volume specification: '/run/user/1000/:/:rw' invalid mount config for type "bind": destination can't be '/'. Adding "-v /run/user/1000:/tmp:rw" doesn't help. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is manually set and exported on a host machine. I'm not quite familiar with docker yet so I probably would need some directions... UPDATE: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR being unset makes the "/:/:rw" instead

[mviereck]

This is a bug in x11docker, not from the kodi image. I have fixed it in x11docker master branch, should work now. Please update and try out.

However, I doubt that kodi itself runs on Wayland, but I am not sure about that.

[kanyck]

@mviereck So I reported to the wrong place. Sorry for that. Updated with x11docker --update-master, now on 6.0.0-beta. Still no change, I got the same error. Kodi is claimed to run on Wayland. I always was curious to try...

[mviereck]

So I reported to the wrong place. Sorry for that.

No problem. :-)

Updated with x11docker --update-master, now on 6.0.0-beta. Still no change, I got the same error.

That's odd. Could you please open a ticket at https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker and attach the x11docker.log file?

Kodi is claimed to run on Wayland. I always was curious to try...

ok, I wasn't aware of that.

[ehough]

@mviereck Thanks, as always, for your help! As @kanyck pointed out, Kodi is indeed supposed to work via Wayland.

Closing this ticket as the issue is more with x11docker, but feel free to continue the discussion here.

[kanyck]

OK, closing it here. New issue is mviereck/x11docker#166

[mviereck]

On x11docker side the bug is basically fixed. However, kodi fails with:

$ x11docker --wayland erichough/kodi

---> starting Kodi with command: kodi-standalone
Error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/kodi-gbm not found
Error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/kodi-gbm not found
Error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/kodi-gbm not found
/usr/bin/kodi --standalone  has exited in an unclean state 3 times in the last 0 seconds.
Something is probably wrong
---> Kodi does not appear to be running. Exiting.

Maybe there is a kodi Wayland library missing.

[mviereck]

I've added RUN apt-get install -y kodi-gbm and get a different message:

---> starting Kodi with command: kodi-standalone
ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting

ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting
ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting
/usr/bin/kodi --standalone  has exited in an unclean state 3 times in the last 36 seconds.
Something is probably wrong
---> Kodi does not appear to be running. Exiting.

I am not sure how to proceed. Maybe kodi needs an option to be set to run on Wayland?

[p-hash]

Hi @mviereck

GBM stands for generic buffer manager and kodi-gbm is there to run kodi standalone with neither xserver nor wayland present.

Adding kodi-wayland package to the image solved the issue for me.