Getting weird boot messages and long startup time
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I've had my raspberry pi3 with Retropie for a while now and its been great!
Until I accidentally pressed update all packages...
Took forever for the pie to finish. And after it finished updating and fixing, I suddenly had start reicast and start scrumvm in my library and a whole lot of rom folders.
And also everytime I boot. Before my custom splashscreen it turns black with the text marker blinking on the top left.After a while I get a very quick message with something about Retropie and a whole lotta stuff. Then it goes to my custom splashscreen, I wait for like 20 - 30sec. It turns black and then i am in emulationstation.
It feels like I installed a lot of stuff to make the pie boot slower and to show that message. I dont' know how to revert back to how it was in the beginning. I have a lot of games on it, mini nes theme, mini nes bg music etc. I bought 8bito controllers after this, and even though all the tutorials say - just pair it and it will work. I can´t seem to get my controllers to work properly. Some buttons work and some don't. My 360 controller works flawlessly.
I dunno, but I feel like this mess-up has something to do with it. Been searching for someone with the same problem but haven't found anything. I hope that someone here has the answer ^^ -
I can't really speak for others, but I have personally found that updating all packages has a tendency to break the install in some way almost every time. Someone else here may be able to advise you on a way to revert changes but I don't think there is an easy way to do it myself. Rather than updating I recommend keeping frequent backups with Win32DiskImager in case something goes wrong with your install and doing fresh builds when you want the new features introduced in later builds. This is the practice I've adopted after breaking several of my builds and its worked out pretty well for me. I don't think updating individual emulators is quite as potentially hazardous if you are only wanting to update a certain emulator. I realize you said you did this accidentally however, but if you keep frequent backups going forward, this shouldn't be a problem if it happens again. Also long boot times may be the result of a slow or corrupted SD card. I can recommend an excellent SD card if you are interested.
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The "Update" menu entry of retropie-setup only updates retropie-setup script, already installed retropie packages and OS packages (if you answer "Yes" to that question).
It doesn't install anything new, and it's the correct way to update retropie.You probably did an "install/update all optional/experimental packages from binary/source" available from the "Manage packages" submenus.
This should be avoided as like it says, it install all packages from a category, in addition to update already installed ones.If you want your setup to be back like the base image, just select "Remove all optional packages" and "Remove all experimental packages" from the corresponding "Manage Packages" submenus.
Only core and main package should not be uninstalled. -
@drake999 said in Getting weird boot messages and long startup time:
I can recommend an excellent SD card if you are interested.
Yes please, that would be great! At least 32gb ^^
@sano said in Getting weird boot messages and long startup time:
The "Update" menu entry of retropie-setup only updates retropie-setup script, already installed retropie packages and OS packages (if you answer "Yes" to that question).
It doesn't install anything new, and it's the correct way to update retropie.You probably did an "install/update all optional/experimental packages from binary/source" available from the "Manage packages" submenus.
This should be avoided as like it says, it install all packages from a category, in addition to update already installed ones.If you want your setup to be back like the base image, just select "Remove all optional packages" and "Remove all experimental packages" from the corresponding "Manage Packages" submenus.
Only core and main package should not be uninstalled.I'm not sure, but I THINK I did the latter. That I installed and updated all the extra stuff. I will try this when I get back home.
But what if it won't help? That It wont get rid of the weird boot messages and startup time.Is there a way to delete everything, including the OS so that I can install Retropie and do all the custom stuff from scratch?
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@lesk I'll link you to my old thread with tests and benchmarks. The area of the most interest will be at the bottom of the thread.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4288/sd-card-experience-requested-fastest-128-gb-card/27
The card I use is the Sandisk Extreme (Not Ultra) 128 GB
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@drake999 said in Getting weird boot messages and long startup time:
@lesk I'll link you to my old thread with tests and benchmarks. The area of the most interest will be at the bottom of the thread.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4288/sd-card-experience-requested-fastest-128-gb-card/27
The card I use is the Sandisk Extreme (Not Ultra) 128 GB
Thank you! ^^
@sano said in Getting weird boot messages and long startup time:
You probably did an "install/update all optional/experimental packages from binary/source" available from the "Manage packages" submenus.
I tried uninstall all the extra stuff and it seems to have worked! Don't get that weird intro message and it boots up a bit faster.
But is there a way to clean everything? Wipe out the whole OS and reset the pie if I would like to reinstall everything from scratch? Just like I did it first time. -
@lesk Just re-write the RetroPie image to the sd card again and you'll be starting from scratch.
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Thank you Mitu!
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