xbmc - ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting

[Stumbles]

A fresh install of Mini-Me with updated repos. Clicking on menu link and xbmc does nothing. Open a terminal and issue 'xbmc' returns;

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params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/home/mythtv/.smb/smb.conf":
        No such file or directory
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/home/mythtv/.smb/smb.conf.append":
        No such file or directory
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
So I mkdir .smb and then touch the smb.conf and now xbmc gives this;

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socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting


[Stumbles]

The relevant error from the xbmc.error.log is this;

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12:34:23 T:3069568816 M:2688307200   ERROR: InitRenderSystem() glewInit returned 1: Missing GL version
12:34:23 T:3069568816 M:2688307200   FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init rendering system

I tired reinstalling glew, nvidia drivers (current) and a few other things I thought that might be relevant to GL. No change.

[pinoc]

xbmc has problems with some Nvidia drivers, the xbmc forum is full of info on that. Xbmc works for some drivers and some others not, seems to be a very sensitive application.

[Stumbles]

I found one link in the xbmc forums with my specific issue and it had no clear resolution. However, I don't think it would effect the other error;

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ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

[Stumbles]

Did a fresh install of the latest ISO (kde) and there is no change; still get the same error. There are a couple of pacularities about PCLinuxOS that do not exist when this very same box had Lunar-Linux+xbmc.

First -  I take it the current PCLOS version 10.0-1 is not the same as the current xbmc version (10.1). The latter version worked just fine on this box with Lunar-Linux.

Second - lsmod shows the nvidia driver to be loaded. Yet when I do a `modinfo nvidia` it says; modinfo: could not find module nvidia. How the hell can that be when I am using ff to post this?

BTW, the current nvidia driver version 275.21 works just fine with;

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)

[daniel]

Have you tried this?
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,88279.msg743537.html#msg743537

Good luck

[Stumbles]

Yes, that worked.

However, needing to mv /usr/lib/libGL.so* to /opt; ldconfig tells me there is something seriously wrong with how PCLOS installs video drivers especially to /opt.

That did not fix modprobe saying the nvidia driver cannot be found when it is loaded.

[AS]

That did not fix modprobe saying the nvidia driver cannot be found when it is loaded.

That's because the module name is nvidia-current, even if it show up as nvidia.

AS