I just can see a big window

[bitozoid]

Hi,

I have compiled xbmc in gentoo. When I run it, I just get a big black window.

Anyone has had the same issue?

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eduardo@dogbert ~ $ xwininfo

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2600789 (has no name)

Absolute upper-left X: 395
Absolute upper-left Y: 374
Relative upper-left X: 395
Relative upper-left Y: 374
Width: 1928
Height: 1111
Depth: 0
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOnly
Colormap: 0x0 (not installed)
Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: yes
Corners: +395+374 --1043+374 --1043--685 +395--685
-geometry 1928x1111+395+374

[althekiller]

You've run XBMC from the source tree. delete XBMC/system/profiles.xml and XBMC/BUILD/system/profiles.xml. Then run the executable ONLY from the BUILD dir.

[bitozoid]

It worked now. I first compiled it with
# mkdir source
# cd source
# svn ...
# cd ..
# mkdir build
# cd build
# lndir ../source
# ./configure
.......

Now I did it with the build.sh script. I had to change the locale to call it:
# LC_ALL=C ./build.sh
because the svn answered with my locale and grep didn't work. Without it I couldn't update and find a working revision.

Thanks a lot.

[althekiller]

If you pass the right options to build.sh it should be able to handle building in a different directory. Try build.sh --help .

[shamgar03]

I don't know if this will work, but make sure you didn't install xbmc as root. I installed mine as root, and then the user didn't have the right to open some xbmc stuff. So first I would try to run it as root and see if it works.

[althekiller]

build.sh tells you its a bad idea to run it with root privileges.