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    • meleuM
      meleu @cyperghost
      last edited by

      @cyperghost said in Mausberry Shutdown Script Doesn't Save Metadata:

      please correct your ghostbin bash... there are small errors in... $emucall isn't definated - it should rather be $emupid

      fixed! thanks!

      emucall is emucall and emupid is emupid. ;-)

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      • cyperghostC
        cyperghost @meleu
        last edited by cyperghost

        @meleu
        No problem brother. I corrected it but used only emupid as variable :)
        But it is better to repost code according to your latest changes. So there is one version 1.59 around

        About using variables? You see I'm avoiding these and use just a bunch of them...
        Is there any difference? Speed up? Memory usage?

        I know it's better for clear code reading.... but is that effcient?

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          barrymossel
          last edited by

          Sorry guys, I was busy drinking last night so I didn't test yet. Probably won't this evening. Will test later this weekend, but I am sure it works with the two of you working on it :)

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            barrymossel
            last edited by barrymossel

            Yup, seems to work. Thanks guys!

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            • lostlessL
              lostless
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              @meleu @cyperghost Hey, somthing has happened. The script no longer works in retroarch. This is recent as I just updated and a week ago it worked. so Kodi it kills, and will shutdown emulation station properly if its open, but will no longer kick retroarch back to emulation station to exit. It just says terminated and shuts down without saving meta data. Looks like it just gives up and does the old way of shutting down. also @cyperghost , my reset on my nespi no longer works with retro arch, kodi is fine, because of what ever has happened. WHY DID I UPDATE!!!!! LOL

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              • meleuM
                meleu @lostless
                last edited by

                @lostless can you please try this approach here?: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12895/ensuring-es-gracefully-finish-and-save-metadata-in-every-system-shutdown

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                • lostlessL
                  lostless @meleu
                  last edited by lostless

                  @meleu I’ll take a look when I get home. Just To Verify, this is what I have running in my script. Is this the most up to date?

                  #!/bin/bash
                  # Terminate any emulatorcall!
                  # This works just for RetroPie!
                  
                   emucall="$(sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info | tr -d '\\"' | tr '^$[]*.()|+?{}' '.')"
                          if [[ -n "$emucall" ]]; then
                              emupid="$(pgrep -f "$emucall")" 
                              pkill -P "$emupid"
                              kill "$emupid"
                              sleep 4
                          fi    
                  
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                  • cyperghostC
                    cyperghost @lostless
                    last edited by

                    @lostless Please use the approach @meleu posted...
                    The coding is the same but you don't need to modify the shutdown script itself!

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                    • meleuM
                      meleu @lostless
                      last edited by

                      @lostless please, when posting a code like that put it beetween codeblocks. More info here: http://commonmark.org/help/

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                      • lostlessL
                        lostless
                        last edited by

                        Looks like I’m missing the “wait”at the end compared to the script I use for the reset button. I’ll add it in and see if it helps. The issue I’m having though is not meta data related. As I said. When in ES, it funtions fine. It’s just when in retroarch that it no longer exits back to ES. Kodi is fine. It was working fine until yesterday.

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                        • lostlessL
                          lostless @meleu
                          last edited by

                          @meleu heres the script im using now, same issue

                          #!/bin/bash
                          # Terminate any emulatorcall!
                          # This works just for RetroPie!
                          emucall="$(sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info | tr -d '\\"' | tr '^$[]*.()|+?{}' '.')"
                          # If there's an emulator running, we need to kill it and go back to ES
                          if [[ -n "$emucall" ]]; then
                              emupid="$(pgrep -f "$emucall")" 
                              pkill -P "$emupid"
                              kill "$emupid"
                              wait "$emupid"
                              sleep 5 # maybe it can be lesser
                          fi    
                          

                          and errors im getting trying to exit out of retroarch

                          pkill: killing pid 1 failed: Operation not permitted
                          pkill: killing pid 2 failed: Operation not permitted
                          ./exit.sh: line 9: kill: `': not a pid or valid job spec
                          ./exit.sh: line 10: wait: `': not a pid or valid job spec
                          
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                          • meleuM
                            meleu @lostless
                            last edited by

                            @lostless are you able to access your raspi via SSH while running an emulator?

                            If yes, I would like to ask you to do this:

                            1. launch a game.

                            2. access your raspi via SSH.

                            3. perform this command:

                            bash -x /path/to/the/emulator/killer/script.sh 2> debug.txt
                            
                            1. The command above generates the debug.txt file. Post this file on ghostbin or something similar.

                            Thanks.

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                            • lostlessL
                              lostless @meleu
                              last edited by

                              @meleu https://ghostbin.com/paste/qa5ph
                              Just want to say thanks for all your help.

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                              • lostlessL
                                lostless
                                last edited by

                                @meleu Sorry, looks like copying from nano cut a lot off text. heres a good copy
                                https://ghostbin.com/paste/q9zsm

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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu @lostless
                                  last edited by meleu

                                  @lostless Thanks for this. I've found the problem. The runcommand.sh script changed a bit 3 days ago. I just have to adapt my Regular Expression and make it stronger. Wait a little, I'll try to sort it on our script.

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                                  • meleuM
                                    meleu @lostless
                                    last edited by

                                    @lostless I made my tests on a shell where there's no RetroPie installed and I believe it will work fine. But, you know, sh!t happens...

                                    Try this version, please (feedback would be appreciated):

                                    #!/bin/bash
                                    # Terminate any emulatorcall!
                                    # This works just for RetroPie!
                                    emucall="$(sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info | tr -d '\\"' | tr '^$[]*.()|+?{}' '.' | sed 's/[^ ]*=[^ ]* //g')"
                                    # If there's an emulator running, we need to kill it and go back to ES
                                    if [[ -n "$emucall" ]]; then
                                        emupid="$(pgrep -f "$emucall")" 
                                        pkill -P "$emupid"
                                        kill "$emupid"
                                        wait "$emupid"
                                        sleep 5 # maybe it can be lesser
                                    fi
                                    

                                    maybe I'll try to simplify that crazy line with a simpler regex later... ;-)

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                                    • lostlessL
                                      lostless @meleu
                                      last edited by

                                      @meleu Its working in retroarch now im going to patch in into my mauseberry shutdown script!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE THE MAN
                                      But kodi is not working
                                      https://ghostbin.com/paste/uqo6e
                                      debug of kodi not exiting.
                                      not a big deal if kodi does not work. Just kind of want my reset button to be the end all to go back to ES.

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                                      • meleuM
                                        meleu @lostless
                                        last edited by

                                        @lostless said in Mausberry Shutdown Script Doesn't Save Metadata:

                                        But kodi is not working

                                        Here it goes another version, trying to get kodi too:

                                        # Terminate any emulatorcall!
                                        # This works just for RetroPie!
                                        emucall="$(sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info | tr -d '\\"' | tr '^$[]*.()|+?{}' '.' | sed 's/[^ ]*=[^ ]* //g')"
                                        # If there's an emulator running, we need to kill it and go back to ES
                                        if [[ -n "$emucall" ]]; then
                                            emupid="$(pgrep -f "$emucall" | tr '\n' ' ')"
                                            pkill -P "$(echo $emupid | tr ' ' ',')"
                                            kill "$emupid"
                                            wait "$emupid"
                                            sleep 5 # maybe it can be lesser
                                        fi
                                        
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                                        • lostlessL
                                          lostless
                                          last edited by

                                          @meleu it works!!!!!! but now it looks like i blew out the gpio pin for my reset button. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That what i get for using a different build without gpio setup. GPIO DANGEROUS TO USE if not setup?

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                                          • meleuM
                                            meleu @lostless
                                            last edited by

                                            @lostless sorry, I didn't understand your last question...

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