XBMC closes at splash screen on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[fanless]

Hi,

I have just installed Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on my HP NC2400 laptop and installed XBMC. XBMC gets as far as the window opening and the XBMC logo displays for just long enough to see it before the window closing without a trace.

Hardware:
Intel Core Duo
1GB Ram
Intel GMA950 graphics
1280x800 display without compiz

Software:
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fresh install
XBMC installed today (26 Apr 09) by adding the PPA repository.

My XBMC log can be found at: http://pastesite.com/6700

Please let me know if there is any more info I can provide.

Thanks.

[fanless]

Sorry me again.

I just found a thread that said to run from a terminal to get more details of how it fails.

This is what I see:

$ xbmc
get fences failed: -1
param: 6, val: 0
The XBMC_HOME environment variable is not set.
get fences failed: -1
param: 6, val: 0
Fatal error encountered, aborting
Error log at /home/peter/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
Aborted
$

Thanks.

[althekiller]

Looks like your skins didn't install correctly for one reason or another. Make sure that the PM3 and PM3HD skin packages were pulled in by default.

[fanless]

I reinstalled both skins and it works perfectly now. Not sure what I had done wrong. Thanks so much.

I now have XBMC on XBOX, Linux & Windows. Keep up the superb work.

Thanks guys.