DNS resolve errors on boot

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1

I’m getting the following errors on boot. The URLs do resolve to an IP. So I’m not sure what the problem is. This is a fresh install of 8.95.5

16:00:22.106 T:3979338608 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn’t resolve host name(6)
16:00:22.106 T:3979338608 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256:
16:00:22.106 T:3979338608 ERROR: Open - failed to open source https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256
16:00:22.106 T:3979338608 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256’
16:00:22.107 T:4020233072 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn’t resolve host name(6)
16:00:22.107 T:4020233072 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5:
16:00:22.107 T:4020233072 ERROR: Open - failed to open source https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5
16:00:22.108 T:4020233072 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5’
16:00:22.163 T:3970945904 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn’t resolve host name(6)
16:00:22.163 T:3970945904 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256:
16:00:22.163 T:3970945904 ERROR: Open - failed to open source http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256
16:00:22.163 T:3970945904 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256’
16:00:22.198 T:3945767792 NOTICE: Register - new cec device registered on cec->AOCEC: CEC Adapter (0000:0000)
16:00:24.281 T:3912196976 ERROR: ## CoreELEC Addon ## oe::load_url(https://update.coreelec.org//releases.php) ## ERROR: (URLError(gaierror(-3, ‘Temporary failure in name resolution’),))
16:00:24.282 T:3912196976 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/adamg/CoreELEC/build.CoreELEC-S905.arm-8.95.5/CoreELEC-settings-4feae3f3649fd9acfdc4d02ac4601f2ce29c41a7/.install_pkg/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.coreelec.settings/oe.py”, line 250, in load_url
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 154, in urlopen
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 429, in open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 447, in _open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 407, in _call_chain
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1241, in https_open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1198, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>
16:00:24.382 T:3774579568 ERROR: ## CoreELEC Addon ## oe::load_url(https://update.coreelec.org/updates.php?i=fdd6dee287ed045e65f6f2105b2cd975&d=CoreELEC&pa=S905.arm&v=8.95.5&f=gxl_p212_2g) ## ERROR: (URLError(gaierror(-3, ‘Temporary failure in name resolution’),))
16:00:24.383 T:3774579568 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/adamg/CoreELEC/build.CoreELEC-S905.arm-8.95.5/CoreELEC-settings-4feae3f3649fd9acfdc4d02ac4601f2ce29c41a7/.install_pkg/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.coreelec.settings/oe.py”, line 250, in load_url
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 154, in urlopen
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 429, in open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 447, in _open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 407, in _call_chain
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1241, in https_open
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1198, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>
16:00:24.388 T:3774579568 ERROR: ## CoreELEC Addon ## system::check_updates_v2 ## ERROR: (TypeError(‘expected string or buffer’,))
16:00:24.392 T:3774579568 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/adamg/CoreELEC/build.CoreELEC-S905.arm-8.95.5/CoreELEC-settings-4feae3f3649fd9acfdc4d02ac4601f2ce29c41a7/.install_pkg/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.coreelec.settings/resources/lib/modules/system.py”, line 845, in check_updates_v2
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py”, line 339, in loads
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 364, in decode
TypeError: expected string or buffer
CoreELEC:~/.kodi/temp # nslookup addons.coreelec.org/
Server: 192.168.100.1
Address 1: 192.168.100.1 pfSensefw.localdomain

nslookup: can’t resolve ‘addons.coreelec.org/’
CoreELEC:~/.kodi/temp # nslookup addons.coreelec.org
Server: 192.168.100.1
Address 1: 192.168.100.1 pfSensefw.localdomain

Name: addons.coreelec.org
Address 1: 116.203.16.118 server.coreelec.org
CoreELEC:~/.kodi/temp # nslookup raw.githubusercontent.com
Server: 192.168.100.1
Address 1: 192.168.100.1 pfSensefw.localdomain

Name: raw.githubusercontent.com
Address 1: 151.101.196.133
CoreELEC:~/.kodi/temp # nslookup mirrors.kodi.tv
Server: 192.168.100.1
Address 1: 192.168.100.1 pfSensefw.localdomain

Name: mirrors.kodi.tv
Address 1: 89.16.176.16 dharma.dh.bytemark.co.uk
CoreELEC:~/.kodi/temp # nslookup update.coreelec.org
Server: 192.168.100.1
Address 1: 192.168.100.1 pfSensefw.localdomain

Name: update.coreelec.org
Address 1: 116.203.16.118 server.coreelec.org

2

First line of attack will always be check with a different SD / USB stick to see if the issue persists :wink:

3

I brought the box into work, different network, different firewall. Get the following errors.
16:00:23.653 T:4024419184 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn’t resolve host name(6)
16:00:23.653 T:4024419184 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
16:00:23.653 T:4024419184 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256:
16:00:23.653 T:3975144304 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5:
16:00:23.654 T:4024419184 ERROR: Open - failed to open source https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256
16:00:23.654 T:3975144304 ERROR: Open - failed to open source https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5
16:00:23.654 T:4024419184 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘https://addons.coreelec.org/9.0/Amlogic/arm/addons.xml.gz?sha256’
16:00:23.654 T:3975144304 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodinerds/repo/master/addons.xml.md5’
16:00:23.656 T:3983537008 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn’t resolve host name(6)
16:00:23.656 T:3983537008 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256:
16:00:23.657 T:3983537008 ERROR: Open - failed to open source http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256
16:00:23.657 T:3983537008 ERROR: CRepository: failed read ‘http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/addons.xml.gz?sha256’
16:00:23.777 T:3949966192 NOTICE: Register - new cec device registered on cec->AOCEC: CEC Adapter (0000:0000)

log file is https://paste.kodi.tv/jaqubocusa

4

Try enabling wait for network. It’s possible that the first check happens before the network is fully up.

5

That seems to have fixed it, Thanks! Have to enable that on all my Kodi boxes.