Retropie on Raspbian Buster

geekinchief

I am getting this error message upon completion of the install:

mitu

@geekinchief Yes, I think I got the same messages, but since the building of packages (except one) was successful, I just treated them as warnings.

libavdevice-dev has a hard dependency on libsdl-2.0.9 (required by retroarch) and it fails installation.
libusb-1.0-0-dev is installable, we'll have to see why it's not installed (required by retroarch, dolphin and xboxdrv
libxkbcommon-dev is installable, similar like before (required by retroarch).

EDIT: I see now that retroarch is not installed because of this, somehow I missed it in the log. Excluding libavdevice-dev from the dependencies makes the compilation work, probably with disabled recording capabilities.

mitu

@quicksilver lr-mupen64plus-next builds fine, I just loaded 007 to test (ran horribly) and it loaded ok.

quicksilver

@mitu Yea, that game doesnt run well using lr-mupen64plus-next on my overclocked 3b+ either. Im hopefully getting a pi 4 this friday, if my microcenter near me gets some in stock and will try to test then on the new hardware.

geekinchief

@mitu How do I exclude libavdevice-dev?

mitu

@geekinchief Update your RetroPie-Setup script and try again to build RetroArch.

geekinchief

@mitu said in Retropie on Raspbian Buster:

rc

Maybe I'm dense, but I can't find any reference to libavdevice-dev in my setup script.

mitu

@geekinchief Please re-read my previous reply.

geekinchief

@mitu So it seems that with the latest Buster everything installed but muplus64. However, emulationstation shows a black screen. Any idea if there's a workaround?

mitu

@geekinchief I didn't experience the black screen. What display/system do you have ?

BuZz

@geekinchief are you using a rpi4 ? Buster is not yet supported anyway yet, so I'm not sure how useful this thread is - unless you are able to code/debug and work on the support yourself.

geekinchief

@BuZz I am using a Pi 4, yes, so was hoping to find a way to at least try some of the emulators on it.

psyke83

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mikem

I updated my RPI2 running raspbian/retropie to buster. I needed to make some adaptions to mupen64plus-video-gles2n64 [1] for mupen64plus (which i personally do not use) to build. And emulationstation does not autostart because the pi user does not login automatically anymore (need to check why), but after logging in with pi on tty1 ES starts and at least the SNES-Emulator runs fine.

[1] https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/pull/26

geekinchief

@mikem So you had a working Retropie image running Stretch and then used in-place updates to get to Buster?

mikem

@geekinchief yeah. To be exact, I had a working Jessie image running (had no time to play in a while now), updated it to stretch for a game night (there I had some upgrade issues with some libs, but could sort everything out) and a few days later Raspbian Buster was announced and I thought I give it a try, to see what works.
Debian upgrade was working fine. But I need to say, that I always do a quite conservative way in upgrading: Updating dpkg/apt/aptitude first. Then upgrading a lot of packages step-by-step to see which package upgrade pulls in which dependency (and manually avoid some recommended installs). But I checked the output of 'dist-upgrade' and seemed reasonable.
Then updated RetroPie, which rebuilt some libs (mostly SDL) which took some time. Then it failed because of mupen64plus (described in my previous post). And then I needed to remove the old build-files of usbromservice/usbmount (do not have the logs anymore), because of a repo-cloning issue (something like: 'expected a folder, but was a regular file').

I can provide a list, which emulator I have installed (using only snes and sega megadrive).

mikem

@mitu the fix [1] to build mupen64plus-video-gles2n64 has just been merged and the referenced issue [2] is resolved. So the basic installation should work now.

[1] https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/pull/26
[2] https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/issues/25

romanbsd

I'm unable to start emulationstation on buster:

Linux retropie 4.19.57-v7+ #1244 SMP Thu Jul 4 18:45:25 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

log:

lvl2: 	EmulationStation - v2.8.4rp, built Jul 14 2019 - 23:22:03
lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
lvl2: 	Creating surface...
lvl0: 	Error initializing SDL!
	
lvl0: 	Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: 	Window failed to initialize!

Tried rebuilding emulationstation.
I even tried sdl2 from this PR: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2770

ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:armhf                  2.0.9+dfsg1-1+rpt1+videocorerpi1      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer
hi  libsdl2-dev                          2.0.9+dfsg1-1+rpt1+videocorerpi1      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer development files

Still doesn't work. What can it be? What can I check?
Thanks!

mitu

@romanbsd Are you using a PI4 ? Then see @buzz's previous reply.

romanbsd

Nope. RPI 3B+