[Solved] Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64

ninjaw

Here's my tonight test, here's my config :

Ubuntu 19.04
RAM 7,8 GB
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz × 8
AMD® Radeon r9 200 series
Gnome 3.32.1 64-bit

-Roms on LAN : I spent hours on this, and I couldn't figure why it doesnt work. Hopefully I had commands to test the rompath, and it looks like I couldn't figure how to call my server. I already had hard time with this on another linux project, it may simply be from my hardware : I use a regular Freebox revolution from major french ISP. I had to do sudo apt install cifs-utils and tested numberous other tools to figure what was the IP, I ended with //192.168.0.254/Freebox/Retropie/roms as this is working directly in ubuntu file navigato,r however nothing works via Chrome where all my local ip from 01 to 12 are showing the retropie folders. I guess I'm doomed, numberous other french freebox users are saying the same.

-Emulation : I found back a working PI sd card and brought back the working roms, Picodrive is just broken, Now I got a small windows that stuck immediatly on the message "joypad detected" previously it was always rebooting. Couldn't figure how to reset it. But all of ports games I tested are working including doom quake and outrun. Also FPS and gamewatch are working fine. Cannot go far in testing with so few disk space. I guess I'm doomed too, 1st tought is that sega emuls dont like ubuntu (maybe the 32 bits thing)

-Kodi : It still refuse to install looking at logs the only thing he says is that "kodi-inputstream-rtmp" is not available here's full log:

RetroPie-Setup version: 4.5.1 (1d449e7)
System: Ubuntu 19.04 - Linux ninjaw-16GB 5.0.0-31-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 30 18:51:59 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Installing dependencies for 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
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Atteint :1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Atteint :2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease
Atteint :3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease
Réception de :4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease [97,5 kB]
Ign :5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Atteint :6 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Atteint :7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Atteint :8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu disco InRelease
97,5 ko réceptionnés en 1s (93,4 ko/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets…

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Installing 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
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Atteint :1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Atteint :2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease
Atteint :3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease
Réception de :4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease [97,5 kB]
Ign :5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Atteint :6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu disco InRelease
Atteint :7 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Atteint :8 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
97,5 ko réceptionnés en 1s (96,5 ko/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets…
Lecture des listes de paquets…
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances…
Lecture des informations d'état…
Aucune version du paquet kodi-inputstream-rtmp n'est disponible, mais il existe dans la base
de données. Cela signifie en général que le paquet est manquant, qu'il est devenu obsolète
ou qu'il n'est disponible que sur une autre source

E: Le paquet « kodi-inputstream-rtmp » n'a pas de version susceptible d'être installée
E: Impossible de trouver le paquet kodi-vfs-sftp
Unable to install binary for kodi

mitu

When 'mounting' a CIFS share, the remote path is always //server/share, not //server/share/path/into/the/server. That's how CIFS/SMB works, you cannot 'mount' a folder underneath the share, you need to use the share.
Regarding Picodrive - I would have liked to see the log file - /dev/shm/runcommand.log. But you can also install the alternative emulator - lr-genesis-plus-gx - and switch to it when launching a Megadrive game. Do you have a gamepad attached ? I don't see one in your system description.
For Kodi, it's not clear if you installed the distro package and then you tried to install the PPA one. I see that, for 19.04, there is no kodi-inputstream-rtmp package in the PPA archive (https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+index?field.series_filter=disco&batch=75&memo=75&start=75). Try uninstalling all your Kodi packages and then re-install from the RetroPie setup.

ninjaw

@mitu said in Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64:

When 'mounting' a CIFS share, the remote path is always //server/share, not //server/share/path/into/the/server. That's how CIFS/SMB works, you cannot 'mount' a folder underneath the share, you need to use the share.

What ? It looks like very unlikely, that's not what it's shown in the wiki. Anyway I did try a lot of things including mounting all stages from the server structure, as the issue is probably calling the server itself. It looks like common issue, and it's very odd because this is an old popular machine, powerful server, unix, and obviously it's detected automatically by Ubuntu the same way windows do. Also there are dedicated french wiki around using ubuntu and freebox (but all that they say never worked) a this page that give direct usual IP. As you can see: it's not the same IP I used (254 instead of 1) and with my long windows+freebox experience I believe it's true. I cannot understand why on ubuntu the whole range of first local IP are showing retropie, and how it is possible that the only thing responding is 254, never saw this before. What about server names ? obvioulsy I couldn't use those in this case.

Regarding Picodrive - I would have liked to see the log file - /dev/shm/runcommand.log. But you can also install the alternative emulator - lr-genesis-plus-gx - and switch to it when launching a Megadrive game. Do you have a gamepad attached ? I don't see one in your system description.

Actually I had preinstalled genesis, it didn't work, but right now the whole settings are corrupted and reinstall it didn't work. Do we have any clue about the other 64bit emulators that doesnt work like Daphne ? that's what is mentionned here.

For Kodi, it's not clear if you installed the distro package and then you tried to install the PPA one. I see that, for 19.04, there is no kodi-inputstream-rtmp package in the PPA archive (https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+index?field.series_filter=disco&batch=75&memo=75&start=75). Try uninstalling all your Kodi packages and then re-install from the RetroPie setup.

It's simply as that : it never worked, always did the same, before and after installing kodi via ubuntu. It's the only module that refused to install.

mitu

@ninjaw said in Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64:

What ? It looks like very unlikely, that's not what it's shown in the wiki.

You can try it yourself from the command line

sudo mkdir /mount/nas
sudo mount -o guest //NAS_NAME/FreeBox /mount/nas

Actually I had preinstalled genesis, it didn't work, but right now the whole settings are corrupted and reinstall it didn't work. Do we have any clue about the other 64bit emulators that doesnt work like Daphne ? that's what is mentionned here.

PCSX2 probably doesn't work OOB on x86_64.

It's simply as that : it never worked, always did the same, before and after installing kodi via ubuntu. It's the only module that refused to install.

It works fine for me, though I'm using a LTS release for Ubuntu (18.04).

ninjaw

@mitu said in Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64:

You can try it yourself from the command line
sudo mkdir /mount/nas
sudo mount -o guest //NAS_NAME/FreeBox /mount/nas

It would be handy, still trying to figure what's wrong with freebox, the 254 is confirmed, ppl talk about wrong dns server, and someone sucessfully mounted using 'mafreebox.freebox.fr' do you know if this kind of NAS_NAME are allowed ?

mitu

@ninjaw said in Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64:

It would be handy, still trying to figure what's wrong with freebox, the 254 is confirmed, ppl talk about wrong dns server, and someone sucessfully mounted using 'mafreebox.freebox.fr' do you know if this kind of NAS_NAME are allowed ?

I don't understand this - isn't your NAS in your local network ? What's the hostname of it ? If it doesn't have one, then use its IP address instead of the hostname.

ninjaw

@mitu said in Lots of things not working with Retropie on Ubuntu usb X64:

It would be handy, still trying to figure what's wrong with freebox, the 254 is confirmed, ppl talk about wrong dns server, and someone sucessfully mounted using 'mafreebox.freebox.fr' do you know if this kind of NAS_NAME are allowed ?

I don't understand this - isn't your NAS in your local network ? What's the hostname of it ? If it doesn't have one, then use its IP address instead of the hostname.

Yes... that's one of the strange things, Ubuntu and windows and kodi are calling it freebox_server but, it seems ubuntu requires another name.... oh wait actually this dedicated page is VERY detailled and include a fstab ligne : https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/freeboxv6

Interesting that page says I have to force SMB1.0 vers=1.0 ! More fuel to test tonight sigh

ninjaw

HO-LY crap ! it worked I just had to add lots more options:

//mafreebox.freebox.fr/Freebox/RetroPie/roms /home/ninjaw/RetroPie/roms cifs nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,guest,cache=none,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777, dir_mode=0777,vers=1.0 0 0

Lots of french people are looking for 7 years to these settings, I feel I should put that in his own topic, for futur reference I have to add some notes:
-Here, the first /Freebox/ it's just the way I named my own hard drive connected to freebox, since I use a Freebox Mini4K without hard drive. So users with Freebox Revolution should replace this with /Disque\040dur/ the original name of included hard drive
-The /ninjaw/ is my ubuntu profile, Raspberyy Pi users should use /pi/
-//mafreebox.freebox.fr/ is indeed the intranet freebox URL, however, here it's just the SAMBA local name you should use instead of FREEBOX_SERVER

ninjaw

Most of my emulators are working, I think we can say I don't have this specific issue anymore

mitu

Well, glad you got it set-up. Enjoy playing with your RetroPie !