KODI won't start with user dietpi from dietpi autostart

Troubleshooting
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Hello DietPi-Team,

short:
KODI won’t start with user dietpi from dietpi autostart.
All I get is many of:

/usr/bin/kodi: 94: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 95: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 96: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 97: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 98: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 99: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20231231_202612.log: Permission denied

If I set it to root, it starts but I don’t want to run KODI as root.
What can I do, to let KODI run as dietpi user?

Best regards,
Chris

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probably user dietpi needs to be added to video group

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It is already in video group:

dietpi@DietPi:~$ groups dietpi
dietpi : dietpi tty audio video input render
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can you share full output if you run /usr/bin/kodi as user dietpi from CLI

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It’s the same like from autostart:

/usr/bin/kodi: 94: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 95: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 96: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 97: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 98: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 99: cannot create /home/dietpi/kodi_crashlog-20240102_141511.log: Permission denied

What if I would purge the installation from the DietPi-Menu and install it with User dietpi from CLI?

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Which user is running kodi? ps -ef | grep kodi
To which groups does he belong? groups "$(ps -ef | grep bash | head -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 1)"
What are the permissions of the folder? ls -lah /home/dietpi/

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should be user dietpi. However, Kodi is not starting at all due to some issues with non-root user.

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dietpi@DietPi:~$ ps -ef | grep kodi
dietpi      4684    4658  0 18:24 pts/4    00:00:00 grep kodi
dietpi@DietPi:~$ groups "$(ps -ef | grep bash | head -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 1)"~
groups: ‘dietpi~’: no such user
dietpi@DietPi:~$ ls -lah /home/dietpi/
total 48K
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Dec 31 18:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 23 20:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  231 Dec 30 20:53 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  220 Apr 23  2023 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  571 Nov 23 20:46 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 31 15:31 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Dec 31 15:31 .config
drwxr-x--- 8 root root 4.0K Dec 31 18:08 .kodi
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Dec 31 15:31 .kodiFRESHHH
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 31 15:34 .local
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  161 Nov 23 20:46 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   66 Dec 30 20:42 .selected_editor

Does it have something to do, that I’ve installed it at “First Run” with the needed user root?

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WTF?? The whole directory and files are owned by user root. I doubt this happen because of kodi. At least it explains the permission issue very well. User dietpi should own all the profile files like this:

root@DietPiProd:~# ls -la /home/dietpi/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Jan 27  2023 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 Feb 24  2023 ..
-rw------- 1 dietpi dietpi  482 Feb 24  2023 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 dietpi dietpi  220 Aug  4  2021 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 dietpi dietpi  571 Aug  8  2021 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dietpi dietpi  161 Aug  8  2021 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 dietpi dietpi 1684 Jan 26  2023 influxdata-archive_compat.key
root@DietPiProd:~#

Something you would need to change

chown -R dietpi:dietpi /home/dietpi/
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Ohhh… yes… now I see it too!
Thats strange!
I didnt changed something…
All I did was a fresh install, configuring the “First Steps” via SSH and installed KODI from your list.

Now it works!!!
Many thanks, Joulinar!!!

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