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    EmulationStation Kiosk-USB Specific Crash - Can it be Replicated?

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
      last edited by

      @hooperre Maybe Esc or Enter ?

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      • hooperreH
        hooperre @mitu
        last edited by

        @mitu I’m fairly certain I’ve tried both as I have a keyboard with it currently. No other way to see that error?

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        • hooperreH
          hooperre @mitu
          last edited by hooperre

          @mitu Confirmed. Basically freezes the system. No inputs work.

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
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            @hooperre Try to login to the system via SSG and run killall dialog when the message is on-screen. I forgot about this option.

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            • hooperreH
              hooperre
              last edited by hooperre

              @mitu I basically just see the error screen above a regular terminal as if you exited EmulationStation after using the killall dialog command, but I don't see the actual error message anywhere.

              Only have collections starting with letters. es_log.txt here: https://pastebin.com/hszxWE2V.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
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                OK, time to bring up the big guns. If you have SSH access to the Pi, you can try to get a backtrace from the crash:

                1. Install gdb with
                apt -y install gdb
                
                1. Replace the autostart.sh command to start ES with
                gdb -batch -ex "run" -ex "bt" -ex "quit" /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation 2>&1 > /tmp/es.log
                

                So, instead of the normal autostart.sh which contains just

                emulationstation #auto
                

                you should have

                # emulationstation #auto
                gdb -batch -ex "run" -ex "bt" -ex "quit" /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation 2>&1 > /tmp/es.log
                

                You can find the autostart.sh file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh, do a backup of it just in case.

                Reboot, get the crash message, but don't stop the Pi right away, just SSH in and get the /tmp/es.log file which should contain the crash place in Emulationstation.

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                • hooperreH
                  hooperre @mitu
                  last edited by hooperre

                  @mitu

                  My autostart.sh appears as follows:

                  emulationstation #auto
                  gdb -batch -ex "run" -ex "bt" -ex "quit" /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation 2>&1 > /tmp/es.log
                  

                  I did have to change file permissions to 777 in the created directories above to view them. Am I missing a sudo command anywhere? (sudo gdb doesn't seem to make it work.)

                  sudo nano /tmp/es.log shows nothing.

                  Am dumb was missing the comment part of # emulationstation #auto on line 1.

                  es.log: https://pastebin.com/BpXY8K3A

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
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                    @hooperre Well, that's the error right there :|. Let's see how we can solve that.

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                    • hooperreH
                      hooperre @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu Haha hey thanks for sticking with me this far. It's all gibberish to me so hope you can come up with something! :)

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator
                        last edited by

                        I did some tests and I can't get a crash because of Kid mode. Would it be possible to make a zip of all the gamelists.xml and collections you have (no ROMs) and upload it somewhere ? You can easily create an archive with

                        # zip the gamelists
                        find $HOME/RetroPie/roms/ .emulationstation/gamelists/ -name gamelist.xml | xargs zip -P retropie -@ gamelist.zip
                        
                        # zip the collections
                        zip -P retropie -r collections.zip $HOME/.emulationstation/collections/
                        
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                        • hooperreH
                          hooperre @mitu
                          last edited by hooperre

                          @mitu got an error on the first line xargs: zip: No such file or directory

                          Second I get -bash: zip: command not found

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                            last edited by

                            @hooperre Ah, I forgot zip is not installed by default. You can install it with

                            apt -y install zip
                            

                            then the commands should work.

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                            • hooperreH
                              hooperre @mitu
                              last edited by

                              @mitu Okay they worked, but I'm not sure where they're located.

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                                last edited by

                                @hooperre In your home folder (/home/pi) probably.

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                                • hooperreH
                                  hooperre
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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks - you can delete them (they're password protected anyway). I'll give it a shot to see if I can reproduce the error and maybe finding a fix.

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator
                                      last edited by mitu

                                      @hooperre - good news, I reproduced the crash with your files. Now I only need to find the fix. It seems the crash happens when the Emulationstation tries to populate the Recent auto-collection, if this collection is no longer displayed (disabled from the settings), the crash happens. You don't event need to have other custom collections, just the regular (All/Fav/Recent) enabled.

                                      I'll see how I can debug this further, we'll find a fix for it.

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                                      • hooperreH
                                        hooperre @mitu
                                        last edited by

                                        @mitu Well done. Thanks for your help and hope it helps someone else out!

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                                          last edited by mitu

                                          @hooperre A fix has been submitted and accepted, it will appear sometimes in the emulationstation package. If you want to try out the fix, you can install the emulationstation-dev package, which should contain the fix.

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                                          • hooperreH
                                            hooperre @mitu
                                            last edited by

                                            @mitu Excellent! I'll give it a shot.

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