Good day, all! I have tried reporting this issue in several places now. Firstly, on the Kodi forums.
Original thread here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=354879 Team Kodi got back to me, saying that because the issue was only happening on OpenSUSE, and more specifically, on Tumbleweed, (not on Leap), that I should report the issue to SUSE. They also said that this is not a build officially supported by Team Kodi. So, I reported the issue to SUSE, you can see the full bug report, with all backtraces and relevant info here: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173291 (Just a word of warning – I am getting a timeout when trying to connect to the above site at the time of this writing. I hope that they will be back soon.) SUSE eventually got back to me, saying that the problem occurs in the ctypes Python binding package (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html), and that I should report it to the Kodi developers, if it is a bug in Kodi, or to the Python maintainers, if it is a bug in the Python bindings. Python is not my strong suit, while I can do basic hacking of Python scripts; it is not one of my core skills. My feeling is that, because Tumbleweed is a rolling release, it tends to use more recent system libraries than are used in Leap and most other Linux distros. So, this bug is probably something that has been exposed by a more recent Python package, and that is why the problem doesn’t seem to occur anywhere else in Linux land, as far as I know. I can confirm that I have done a “zypper dup” today, 18th of November 2020, and my installation is up-to-date, as of today. I did a quick test earlier; the problem still exists. Given that I am not familiar with either the Kodi codebase or the Python codebase, I am posting this report here. If someone could please investigate, tell me where the problem lies, and advise me where to report it, either back to Team Kodi, or back to SUSE, or, where to report it to the Python maintainers, I would be grateful. I do not know exactly where the issue or the responsibility for fixing the problem lies. Because the problem, AFAIK, only occurs with the Packman package on Tumbleweed, I thought my logical next step would be to report it here. Kind regards, Steven. _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
