Kodiv20 XBox - SMB add-on does not load after Kodi restart (when in a user profile and the SMB addon is disabled in the master profile)

[KodiBugReporter]

Bug report

Describe the bug

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This bug began occuring after the Kodi V20 update on Xbox Series X. The SMB virtual file system add-on stops working after Kodi is restarted. The add-on is still listed as enabled. Disabling the SBM add-on and enabling it again allows the addon to work normally but the issues occurs again after the next restart.

Expected Behavior

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The SMB add on should remain enabled/loaded after Kodi restarts.

Actual Behavior

The SMB addon does not load after Kodi restart (even though it is stil listed as enabled in the GUI.)

Possible Fix

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable SMB add-on (on Xbox Kodi V20)
2. Add a SMB share
3. Restart the Kodi app

Debuglog

The debuglog can be found here:
https://paste.kodi.tv/iyatobajor

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• Kodi version:v20

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[lrusak]

What do you mean "does not load"?

Are you not able to connect to an smb share or what?

[KodiBugReporter]

I am not able to connect to an existing SMB share. Adding a SMB type share is not listed in the options when attempting to add a new share. The behavior appears to be identical to when the SMB add-on is disabled. This is resolved by disabling and re-enabling the SMB add-on. (But that process needs to be repeated each time Kodi is started.)

I suspect this may be related to "Library updates and mark as watched not persisting across sessions - Xbox V20 Nexus #22269" as the add-on enablement appears to be lost afer a restart even though the add-on shows as checked/enabled in the Gui.

SMB shares appear to work normally after the add-on is enabled for the first time or disabled/re-enabled after a restart

[fuzzard]

If things are not "persisting" this sounds like its crashing on exit between runs. Can you get the kodi.log.old in addition to the kodi.log

[thexai]

In the forum it seems that there are cases with a loop in the DB update process:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370745&pid=3121821#pid3121821
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370745&pid=3121862#pid3121862

2022-12-15 13:43:42.801 T:1388    debug <general>: CDatabaseManager::Initialize, updating databases...
2022-12-15 13:43:42.802 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version Addons33
2022-12-15 13:43:42.803 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version ViewModes6
2022-12-15 13:43:42.804 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version Textures13
2022-12-15 13:43:42.808 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version MyMusic82
2022-12-15 13:43:42.813 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version MyVideos121
2022-12-15 13:43:42.814 T:1388     info <general>: Running database version TV40
2022-12-15 13:43:42.814 T:1388     info <general>: Attempting to update the database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.814 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning indexes from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.815 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning views from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.815 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning triggers from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.816 T:1388    error <general>: SQL: [Epg16.db] SQLite error SQLITE_ERROR (duplicate column name: iChannelGroup)
                                                   Query: ALTER TABLE savedsearches ADD iChannelGroup integer; (duplicate column name: iChannelGroup)
2022-12-15 13:43:42.822 T:1388    error <general>: Exception updating database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.822 T:1388    error <general>: Error updating database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.823 T:1388     info <general>: Old database found - updating from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.823 T:1388    debug <general>: Copying from Epg13.db to Epg16 at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.837 T:1388     info <general>: Attempting to update the database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.837 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning indexes from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.837 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning views from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.838 T:1388    debug <general>: Cleaning triggers from database Epg16.db at Q:\Users\UserMgr0\AppData\Local\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalState\userdata\Database\
2022-12-15 13:43:42.838 T:1388    error <general>: SQL: [Epg16.db] SQLite error SQLITE_ERROR (duplicate column name: iChannelGroup)
                                                   Query: ALTER TABLE savedsearches ADD iChannelGroup integer; (duplicate column name: iChannelGroup)
2022-12-15 13:43:42.838 T:1388    error <general>: Exception updating database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.838 T:1388    error <general>: Error updating database Epg16 from version 13 to 16
2022-12-15 13:43:42.839 T:1388    debug <general>: CDatabaseManager::Initialize, updating databases... DONE

[KodiBugReporter]

If things are not "persisting" this sounds like its crashing on exit between runs. Can you get the kodi.log.old in addition to the kodi.log

I think this new pasted log contains an exit (captured with the logfile uploader as I'm on XBOx)
https://paste.kodi.tv/meseriqute

[thexai]

Tested and can't reproduce:

• Enabled vfs.smb2 add-on and configured a SMB source with MKV movies.
• Scraped movies and close re-open Kodi various times.
• Add-on remains enabled and operative (smb option is displayed to add sources and previous MKV's are playable using SMB).
• Powered Off Xbox and restarted and all remains configured and operative.

Probably this is some kind of corruption in settings or database maybe caused by same database migration issue.

Note that at this moment I have a clean setup and I do not have the problem that the updates do not persist in the database.

[KodiBugReporter]

Tested and can't reproduce:

• Enabled vfs.smb2 add-on and configured a SMB source with MKV movies.
• Scraped movies and close re-open Kodi various times.
• Add-on remains enabled and operative (smb option is displayed to add sources and previous MKV's are playable using SMB).
• Powered Off Xbox and restarted and all remains configured and operative.

Probably this is some kind of corruption in settings or database maybe caused by same database migration issue.

Note that at this moment I have a clean setup and I do not have the problem that the updates do not persist in the database.

Interesting... I reinstalled Kodi so it's not a migration issue. Which XBox model did you test with? I'm experiencing this issue on the Series X. I tried the same tests on a XBox One X (2017 model) and the SMB addon stayed enabled after restart. I wonder if it's a hardware model specific issue?

[KodiBugReporter]

Did some more testing and discovered more details on the root cause - it is a profile settings bug.
Steps to reproduce on Xbox (issue occurred for both Series X and One X):

1. Disable the SMB addon in the Kodi Master profile.
2. Create or log into a new profile Enable the SMB addon (you can now add and use SMB shares normally in the new profile)
3. Restart Kodi and log into the new profile. The SMB addon will be listed as enabled but will not be active. Disabling and re-enabling the SMB addon allows it work normally again until the next Kodi restart.
4. Resolve the issue by: Going to the Master profile and re-enabling the SMB addon. Now the Addon starts normally when a new Kodi session is opened in the other (non-master) profile.

[thexai]

Well, then a bug exists although is a corner case, not urgent to fix right now :)