[SOLVED] RetroPie 4.3 Emulationstation Keeps Crashing

[A Former User]

I updated from source now as well and the issue is still there.

Any other suggestions or help is much appreciated. If there is anything I can send you @BuZz that could help locate a possible bug or another issue please let me know.

[pjft]

@gamerdad09 when you say "crashes within 1 min" or so it suggests that you actually do something in it prior to the crashing? If you stay put I imagine it won't crash.

Would you be able to record a small phone video showing what you do prior to the crash?

We've seen - and I think we addressed - quite a few font.cpp related errors recently, though I don't quite remember what they were about. They may also be completely unrelated, so the video may help.

Thanks.

[Tomaz]

This sounds like the issue I fixed a couple days ago. Both the cause of the broken utf8, but also rewrote the parser to silently ignore any broken utf8 in the future.

[Tomaz]

Should be fixed 2.7.2 which should be out now, if not I'll go back again and see what might be wrong.

[A Former User]

@pjft If I leave RetroPie on the system selection that first apears up when ES loads, there is no crashing. I can scroll between the system/console types normally. The issue occurs when I chose any system and scroll the games listed.

Sometimes it crashes back to the command line after just moving between 2-3 games, other times I can scroll 15 or 20 before it crashes. I will be doing nothing except pressing down or up on the controller to see the next game. It will usually crash rather quickly after I select a system.

I have tried multiple themes and it still crashes. I was originally using the default theme before I did the complete update to RetroPie, ES, all Emulators. I am not using video previews. Just basic XML info + a screenshot image preview or game box art.

I will try to record a video this week and post a link to it.

@tomaz said in RetroPie 4.3 Emulationstation Keeps Crashing:

Should be fixed 2.7.2 which should be out now, if not I'll go back again and see what might be wrong.

I did the full update on Saturday 11/11/2017 at 2pm CST. I noticed the crashing around 9pm CST so I did the full update for everything again and let it run over night. The next morning the crashing from the game selection was still present. I then attempted to update only Emulation Station from Binary and it would still crash with the exact same error in the first post. I then tried one more time to update Emulation Station, this time from Source, but unfortunately the same crash still occurs from the game selection screen.

[pjft]

@gamerdad09 The video may help us, then, at least to start asking for more info.

You mention that it didn't happen before, is that correct? I have a binary from back in the 2.6.5 days here.

If you want to download it in your Pi, make it executable (chmod +x emulationstation), exit your ES version and then run this (./emulationstation), you can compare those versions.

It might be that it's happening in spite, or because of any recent changes.

[Tomaz]

@gamerdad09 2.7.2 came out last night, and should have your issue fixed.

[A Former User]

@tomaz said in RetroPie 4.3 Emulationstation Keeps Crashing:

@gamerdad09 2.7.2 came out last night, and should have your issue fixed.

Is it ready to update from binary, or will I need to update from source? I'll try it either tonight or tomorrow.

[BuZz]

@gamerdad09 binary.

[A Former User]

@tomaz I ran the ES update from binary last night. I didn't have a ton of time to mess with it, but I scrolled through several system gamelists and it did not crash.

There was a delay where everything froze for a 3 or 4 seconds and I thought it was going to crash, but then it started moving along again. It could have been something loading in the background or a gamelist.xml being scanned perhaps?

I'll spend more time with it this weekend. Thank you everyone for all your work and help. I was dreading that I might have to start over again.