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Kodi stopped working after updating Fedora 35. The update included new kernel and NVidia Driver version. It just won't open and the only significant error I find in the logs is:

/app/bin/kodi: line 187:     7 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${KODI_BINARY} $SAVED_ARGS

System

  • OS: Fedora 35
  • Video card: NVidia GeForce GTX 750Ti
  • Kodi installation: Using flatpak - tv.kodi.Kodi

I tried everything I found on Google. Since a lot of people say that it must be related to NVidia, I:

  • Updated the Nvidia driver
  • Downgraded the Nvidia driver
  • Manually installed the Nvidia driver, switched back and forth between this one and the akmod-nvidia.
  • Tried switching back to previously installed kernel versions
  • Tried switching back and forth on Gnome Xorg and Gnome wayland.

It finally worked using Wayland in a specific situation but it is because Kodi couldn't use the Nvidia driver. The performance was terrible but this tells me that it must be because of this driver.

I also tried

  • Reinstalling Kodi
  • Deleting all of its addons
  • Reinstalling previous version of Kodi using flatpak update --commit ...
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The problem is that there are old nvidia "drivers" or "bindings" installed in flatpak that don't match the actual Nvidia driver installed on the computer. (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.60.02)

Reinstalling tv.kodi.Kodi wouldn't trigger the installation of the correct flatpak Nvidia package.

I had to uninstall the mismatching Nvidia packages in flatpak and then simply reinstall Kodi. It automatically installed the matching Nvidia package.

What I had before the manipulation (flatpak list):

nvidia-470-74                          org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-74                                   1.4         user
nvidia-470-86                          org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-86                                   1.4         user

I removed both of them

flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-74
flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-86

I reinstalled Kodi

flatpak install kodi

And now it works. I can see the matching Nvidia package in flatpak list and Kodi is working perfectly:

nvidia-510-60-02                       org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-510-60-02                              1.4         user
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