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Kodi’s Pulsar errors starting up

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If you are seeing the following Pulsar errors, check the possible solutions:

Problem: Trying to launch Pulsar

21:31:27 T:2440  NOTICE: [plugin.video.pulsar] 2015-02-03 21:31:27  INFO  btservice        Starting DHT...
21:31:27 T:2440  NOTICE: [plugin.video.pulsar] 2015-02-03 21:31:27  INFO  btservice        Starting LSD...
21:31:27 T:2440  NOTICE: [plugin.video.pulsar] 2015-02-03 21:31:27  INFO  btservice        Starting UPNP...
21:31:27 T:2440  NOTICE: [plugin.video.pulsar] 2015-02-03 21:31:27  INFO  btservice        Starting NATPMP...
21:31:27 T:4984  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:27 T:4984  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:31:27 T:4984  NOTICE: http://localhost:65251/
21:31:28 T:4984   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
                                            Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Users\TVComputer\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\navigation.py", line 6, in <module>
                                                navigation.run()
                                              File "C:\Users\TVComputer\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 72, in run
                                                data = _json(url)
                                              File "C:\Users\TVComputer\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 40, in _json
                                                with closing(urllib2.urlopen(url)) as response:
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
                                                return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 404, in open
                                                response = self._open(req, data)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
                                                '_open', req)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
                                                result = func(*args)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open
                                                return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
                                                raise URLError(err)
                                            URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
21:31:29 T:4548   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/
21:31:29 T:4548   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/) failed
21:31:29 T:764  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false

Solution
Wait for Pulsar to start up. It usually takes about 1-2 minutes for it to load after Kodi has been enabled.

Problem: Deleting missing stale files
17:08:01 T:139736123422464 NOTICE: [plugin.video.pulsar] Deleting stale files set(['C:\\path\\to\\file\\filename.mp4'])

Solution

  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Kodi\ directory.
  2. Delete the cache directory.
  3. Delete the userdata\addon_data\plugin.video.pulsar\cache directory