Kodi 19.3 - Segmentation fault (x00007fb4bc20c6c1 in pymalloc_alloc)

Question

I'm running Linux Fedora 35, Kernel 5.15.10, Python 3.10.1.

I installed kodi 19.3 via the DNF package manager. However whenever I try to launch kodi it opens up so I can see the GUI, but then after about 3 seconds it always crashes.

Looking at the kodi crash log files under /home/user/kodi_crashlog-xxxxxxxx.log a segmentation fault occurs as follows near the top:

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00007f1989b826c1 in pymalloc_alloc (ctx=0x0, nbytes=64) at /usr/src/debug/python3.10-3.10.1-1.fc35.x86_64/Objects/obmalloc.c:1932
1932            if (UNLIKELY((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) == NULL)) {
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1922ffd640 (LWP 3769))]

I have no idea why this is happening. The only thing I could think of was to reinstall kodi and remove any config files, but the problem persists.

Could it be something to do with the fact I'm using Python 3.10.1?

Here is the full crash log file: https://pastebin.com/sgM9ecKH

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Look at Arch forums: until now only solution is downgrade (install package downgrade) to Python 3.9.9 and Kodi 19.3-1.

Don't forget to pin both if you downgrade manually (package downgrade does it for you).