KOReader's probems with start on Kobo Aura

[lwiechec]

Hi all,

I have been a happy user of KOReader for a very long time on my old and battered Kobo Aura e-reader until recently I (foolishly) decided to upgrade the Kobo firmware on it. After that I have upgraded KOReader to the latest (2023.04).

I have also installed KFMon (although I am not sure if this is needed anymore...)

To cut the long story short, currently I do see the KOReader in the NickelMenu but when it starts, nothing seems to change. The e-reader then becomes unresponsive (I can see still Kobo's original reader software but cannot interact with it). I have to reboot it again to make it function again.

I was wondering if anything like that happened to you and it you could have any hints where to go next.

Below is the content of crash.log from KOReader's directory; I cannot see anything unusual with it:

Original fb rotation is set @ 3
Original fb bitdepth is set @ 32bpp
Switching fb bitdepth to 8bpp & rotation to Portrait
[FBInk] Detected a Kobo Aura SE r2 (379 => Star @ Mark 7)
[FBInk] Enabled Kobo Mark 7 quirks
[FBInk] Clock tick frequency appears to be 100 Hz
[FBInk] Screen density set to 212 dpi
[FBInk] Variable fb info: 758x1024, 32bpp @ rotation: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBInk] Fixed fb info: ID is "mxc_epdc_fb", length of fb mem: 3145728 bytes & line length: 3072 bytes
[FBInk] Canonical rotation: 0 (Upright, 0°)
[FBInk] Fontsize set to 16x16 (IBM (Default) base glyph size: 8x8)
[FBInk] Line length: 47 cols, Page size: 64 rows
[FBInk] Detected a change in framebuffer bitdepth (32 -> 8)
[FBInk] Reinitializing...
[FBInk] Variable fb info: 758x1024, 8bpp @ rotation: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBInk] Fixed fb info: ID is "mxc_epdc_fb", length of fb mem: 3145728 bytes & line length: 768 bytes
[FBInk] Canonical rotation: 0 (Upright, 0°)
[FBInk] Fontsize set to 16x16 (IBM (Default) base glyph size: 8x8)
[FBInk] Line length: 47 cols, Page size: 64 rows
[FBDepth] Screen is 758x1024 (768x1024 addressable, fb says 768x2048)
[FBDepth] Buffer is mapped for 3145728 bytes with a scanline stride of 3072 bytes
[FBDepth] Requested canonical rota 0 translates to 3 for this device
[FBDepth] Current rotation is already 3!
[FBDepth] Switching fb to 8bpp @ rotation 3 . . .
Updating bitdepth from 32bpp to 8bpp
Sanitizing grayscale flag for 8bpp
Updating rotation from 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°) to 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
Bitdepth is now 8bpp (grayscale: 1) @ rotate: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBDepth] Screen is 758x1024 (768x4096 addressable, fb says 768x2048)
[FBDepth] Buffer is mapped for 3145728 bytes with a scanline stride of 768 bytes
---------------------------------------------
                launching...
  _  _____  ____                _
 | |/ / _ \|  _ \ ___  __ _  __| | ___ _ __
 | ' / | | | |_) / _ \/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ '__|
 | . \ |_| |  _ <  __/ (_| | (_| |  __/ |
 |_|\_\___/|_| \_\___|\__,_|\__,_|\___|_|

 It's a scroll... It's a codex... It's KOReader!
[*] Current time: 05/28/23-10:58:28[*] Version: v2023.04

ffi.load: libs/libutf8proc.so.2
ffi.load: blitbuffer
05/28/23-10:58:28 INFO  initializing for device Kobo_star_r2 
05/28/23-10:58:28 INFO  framebuffer resolution: {
  h = 1024,
  w = 758
} --[[table: 0x2ac966c8]] 
[ko-input] Forked off fake event generator (pid: 1740)
05/28/23-10:58:28 WARN  Device:getKeyRepeat: EVIOCGREP ioctl failed: Function not implemented 
ffi.load: libs/libmupdf.so
ffi.load: libs/libwrap-mupdf.so
ffi.load: libs/libfreetype.so.6
ffi.load: libs/libharfbuzz.so.0
ffi.load: libs/libzstd.so.1
05/28/23-10:58:29 INFO  Kobo Wi-Fi: Left in an inconsistent state by launcher! 
dhcpcd[1746]: dhcpcd not running
05/28/23-10:58:29 INFO  Kobo Wi-Fi: disabling Wi-Fi 
dhcpcd[1758]: dhcpcd not running
OK
05/28/23-10:58:31 INFO  Loading plugins from directory: plugins 
ffi.load: sqlite3
05/28/23-10:59:20 INFO  Powering off the device... 
05/28/23-10:59:20 INFO  Preparing to quit UIManager with exit code: 88 
05/28/23-10:59:20 INFO  no dialog left to show 
05/28/23-10:59:20 INFO  Tearing down UIManager with exit code: 88 
[ko-input] Closed input device with fd: 7 @ idx: 2
[ko-input] Closed input device with fd: 6 @ idx: 1
[ko-input] Closed input device with fd: 5 @ idx: 0
Restoring original fb bitdepth @ 32bpp & rotation @ 3
[FBInk] Detected a Kobo Aura SE r2 (379 => Star @ Mark 7)
[FBInk] Enabled Kobo Mark 7 quirks
[FBInk] Clock tick frequency appears to be 100 Hz
[FBInk] Screen density set to 212 dpi
[FBInk] Variable fb info: 758x1024, 8bpp @ rotation: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBInk] Fixed fb info: ID is "mxc_epdc_fb", length of fb mem: 3145728 bytes & line length: 768 bytes
[FBInk] Canonical rotation: 0 (Upright, 0°)
[FBInk] Fontsize set to 16x16 (IBM (Default) base glyph size: 8x8)
[FBInk] Line length: 47 cols, Page size: 64 rows
[FBInk] Detected a change in framebuffer bitdepth (8 -> 32)
[FBInk] Reinitializing...
[FBInk] Variable fb info: 758x1024, 32bpp @ rotation: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBInk] Fixed fb info: ID is "mxc_epdc_fb", length of fb mem: 3145728 bytes & line length: 3072 bytes
[FBInk] Canonical rotation: 0 (Upright, 0°)
[FBInk] Fontsize set to 16x16 (IBM (Default) base glyph size: 8x8)
[FBInk] Line length: 47 cols, Page size: 64 rows
[FBDepth] Screen is 758x1024 (768x4096 addressable, fb says 768x2048)
[FBDepth] Buffer is mapped for 3145728 bytes with a scanline stride of 768 bytes
[FBDepth] Current rotation is already 3!
[FBDepth] Switching fb to 32bpp @ rotation 3 . . .
Updating bitdepth from 8bpp to 32bpp
Sanitizing grayscale flag for bitdepths > 8bpp
Updating rotation from 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°) to 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
Bitdepth is now 32bpp (grayscale: 0) @ rotate: 3 (Counter Clockwise, 270°)
[FBDepth] Screen is 758x1024 (768x1024 addressable, fb says 768x2048)
[FBDepth] Buffer is mapped for 3145728 bytes with a scanline stride of 3072 bytes

[pazos]

See https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/10107

[lwiechec]

Originally Posted by pazos

See https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/10107

Thank you a lot. I have ended up reverting to 4.34 FW.