Seems to contain garbage, clear?

kaptainsteve

I just let it go for hours (8 hours give or take a couple!) and then it eventually boots up to Retropie.

I used the official image off the site.

It seems to happen after I've added roms or images or if it wasn't closed down via the UI.

Thanks.

jonnykesh

@kaptainsteve You seemed to be running normally for a while without issue. These things you did should not cause this issue. In fact I don't even know what it means, and I even googled it!
Are you scraping without it being closed down or something? There is some part of the process you are not mentioning that is causing this issue.
As you can see from your own searches there doesn't seem to be any real answer as no one has identified the actual cause.

kaptainsteve

@jonnykesh
THanks for your effort.
What do you mean, "scraping without it being closed down?"
What does one need to close down?
Do you need to turn off Emulation Station when inserting media files?
Thanks.

dankcushions

@kaptainsteve

It seems to happen after I've added roms or images or if it wasn't closed down via the UI.

if you don't shut down properly via the UI (ie, you just pull the power) you risk SD card corruption. the kind of issue you're seeing looks like it may be caused by SD card corruption.

dankcushions

@kaptainsteve said in Seems to contain garbage, clear?:

Do you need to turn off Emulation Station when inserting media files?

what do you mean by 'inserting media files'?

kaptainsteve

adding media files (ie. screenshots) using a scraper.

dankcushions

@kaptainsteve yes you must exit emulationstation before doing that.

kaptainsteve

Thanks,,,,
Maybe that's the big issue.
Won't do that anymore!

kaptainsteve

Brother, this is driving me crazy.
Took 2 1/2 days to stop running the "seems to contain garbage, clear? Yes" message.
I thought, maybe the disc is corrupted.
But, it works fine after that?
Anyway...
Got a new quality disc, a Samsung, and imaged it w/Retropie.
Got that up and running.
Installed the roms via my pc.
On the PC I went to \192.168.1.XXX and dropped the roms in the respective Retropie folders.
I go to the on screen Emulationstation settings and correctly restarted Emulationstation so the roms can show up and the same thing happened with this new disc.
It took 12 hours (from yesterday noon ish until this morning) to finally go back to Retropie.
This morning, went into Mame, there were no controls set?
I couldn't get to Mame settings (usually the TAB) at all and couldn't escape it correctly (I hit all the buttons on the keyboard and none did anything).
I had to shut down Retropie by pulling the plug, restarted it and again, I get the "seems to contain garbage" message.
We'll see when it stops? Probably tonight or tomorrow sometime.
Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks.

P.S. do you have to shut down Emulationstation when you add the roms too? That is the only thing I may have done "incorrectly" the first time?

kaptainsteve

It came back around 5pm....
I simply went the control panel and restarted it and again...
the seems to contain garbage, clear message started back up?
I'm stumped.

jonnykesh

@kaptainsteve You have a hardware problem in that case. Your Pi is borked. I really can't think of any thing else. If you have tried.

A decent power supply 2.5A @ 5V
Changed your SD card
Re-downloaded the image
Re-flashed the image
Prayed really hard...

I'm out of ideas except a bad board. Your Pi is burned. Sorry.

kaptainsteve

Thanks for your time and effort to help me.
I ordered a new board.
We'll see.....

kaptainsteve

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Tried another card today.... Retropie installs and boots, then after adding roms I get the dreaded "garbage" message.
I added roms this time with Emulationstation off, and rebooted.