Xbmc locks up

[rcrh]

i've been trying to make a couple of changes to the home.xml of the project helix skin and have ended up in a situation where xbmc starts (i see the splash screen) and then locks up - no ftc, no nothing. (build from 2005-04-01)

lucking i have a boot disk with evox and am able to get back to my xbox and recover from this.

here is the last line of the log:

error unable to load:q:\skin\project helix\pal\mymusicnav.xml

the wierd thing is that project helix doesn't have this file as part of its default files. nor do any of the skins i've looked at.

anyone have any idea what's going on?

i've also pasted my entire log file below.

thanks in advance.
richard.

xbmc.log
17-04-2005 17:22:24 notice q is mapped to:harddisk0\partition1\apps\xbmc-2005-04-01
17-04-2005 17:22:25 notice loaded q:\system\players\mplayer\iso639-1.xml
17-04-2005 17:22:25 notice loaded q:\system\players\mplayer\iso639-2.xml
17-04-2005 17:22:25 notice initialize assignment:[dhcp] network ip:[192.168.1.103] netmask:[255.255.255.0] gateway:[192.168.1.1] nameserver:[0.0.0.0]
17-04-2005 17:22:25 notice use dhcp
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice start ftpserver
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice start led control
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice dim lcd on playback
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice start dvd mediatype detection
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice initializing playlistplayer
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice start fancontroller
17-04-2005 17:22:27 notice load default skin:[project helix]
17-04-2005 17:22:28 error unable to load:q:\skin\project helix\pal\mymusicnav.xml

[kraqh3d]

your skin is out of date. the default pm skin at the time should have that file. (pm1 based on your date of 04-01.) make sure you have project mayhem installed in your skin directory and then do one of the two:

1) hold down start+back while xbmc loads. this will delete your settings and start out with the defaults, which assume pm1 as the skin.

2) open up e:\tdata\0face008\settings.xml and change your skin to "project mayhem".

if you're using profiles, you may need to edit your profile#.xml files as well. i dont use them so i'm not really sure.

[rcrh]

kraqh3d,

first, thanks for the help.

but, i'm surprised the project helix skin is out of date since i use it all the time. it only stopped working when i was mucking around with it.

second, i did a search through all of the skins (including the pm i & ii & iii) and none of them have that file!

third, the biggest problem was that holding down start & back while xbmc loads didn't work. no matter what i did, i would get the splash screen and then a black screen. no ftp.

luckly i had an evox boot disk i could use so i could ftp in and delete the tdata & udata directories.

everything is back to normal, but it could have been terrible if i hadn't keep that boot disc around.

richard.