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

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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

      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
        last edited by

        @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! :)

          4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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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

              4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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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.

                  4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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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
                      last edited by 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!

                            4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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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.

                                4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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