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    Emulationstation crashed and Cannot allocate memory on pi4

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    • quicksilverQ
      quicksilver @mitu
      last edited by quicksilver

      @mitu said in Emulationstation crashed and Cannot allocate memory on pi4:

      I tried your advice but no log gets saved. Below are the commands I used:

      pi@retropie:~ $ gdb -q /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation
      Reading symbols from /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
      (gdb) set logging file /home/pi/es_crash.log
      (gdb)
      (gdb) run
      Starting program: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation
      [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
      Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
      [New Thread 0xb4e0c160 (LWP 9985)]
      [Thread 0xb4e0c160 (LWP 9985) exited]
      [Inferior 1 (process 9982) exited normally]
      (gdb) bt full
      No stack.
      (gdb) q
      
      

      Edit: just realized that I pressed f4 to get to the terminal and it crashed while exiting so maybe it didnt work because of that? I will try again by just launching games.

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      • quicksilverQ
        quicksilver
        last edited by quicksilver

        Just tried again ES crashed on startup:

        pi@retropie:~ $ gdb -q /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationsta                            tion
        Reading symbols from /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstati                            on...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
        (gdb) set logging file /home/pi/es_crash.log
        (gdb) run
        Starting program: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation
        [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
        Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
        [New Thread 0xb4e0c160 (LWP 10011)]
        
        Thread 2 "emulationstatio" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
        [Switching to Thread 0xb4e0c160 (LWP 10011)]
        0x001b4fe4 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .isra.                            11] [clone .part.12] ()
        (gdb) bt full
        #0  0x001b4fe4 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #1  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #2  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #3  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #4  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #5  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #6  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        No symbol table info available.
        #7  0x001b4ff0 in nsvg__initPaint(NSVGcachedPaint*, NSVGpaint*, float) [clone .i                            sra.11] [clone .part.12] ()
        --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--q
        Quit
        (gdb) q
        A debugging session is active.
        
                Inferior 1 [process 10008] will be killed.
        
        Quit anyway? (y or n) y
        pi@retropie:~ $
        

        But no log to be found in /home/pi/

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        • quicksilverQ
          quicksilver
          last edited by

          So third time is a charm, here is the log file:

          https://pastebin.com/5WygSKfD

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator
            last edited by mitu

            unfortunately it doesn't contain the information of where the crash originated. I think my instructions are not correct and the backtrace is not printed in the logs :/.

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            • quicksilverQ
              quicksilver
              last edited by quicksilver

              I appreciate your help on this. Do you have any further advice? Im not sure what to do now considering I just started over and the issue persists.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

                Since I can't reproduce it with my data, can you create an archive with all your gamelists ($HOME/.emulationstation/gamelists), which should have both the list of games and the artwork - no ROMs. ? Let's see if we can transplant your configuration on my system.

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                • quicksilverQ
                  quicksilver @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu you want just the gameslists or do you want the scraped media files too? (no roms)

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
                    last edited by

                    Yes, add the scraped media also, since you said you don't have videos.

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                    • quicksilverQ
                      quicksilver
                      last edited by

                      Ok Ill get started on that, it will take me some time to extricate that info since I now have it stored with my roms. Unfortunately it wont be as easy to copy and paste as before.

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator
                        last edited by

                        The following commands should zip all media related .png files into one zip:

                        cd $HOME/RetroPie/roms
                        find -type f | grep media | egrep png$ | zip all-media.zip -@
                        
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                        • quicksilverQ
                          quicksilver @mitu
                          last edited by

                          @mitu Ill give this a shot thanks

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                          • quicksilverQ
                            quicksilver
                            last edited by

                            Before I made someone else do a bunch of work trying to troubleshoot my issue I decided to start with a stock image and make changes one by one to see when the crashing occured. I narrowed it down to the nostalgic-neo theme. After I reverted back to the default nostalgic theme and rebooting I haven't had a crash and it's been almost a week. I removed the nostalgic-neo theme from my pi 3 rebooted and it is also stable again. Not sure exactly why this theme made emulation station unstable for me but I'm glad to have finally figured it out. The odd thing is that originally when I was troubleshooting this issue I switched to the carbon theme and still had crashing but maybe if it was some sort of memory issue/leak then I should have rebooted in between tests.

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                            • EfriimE
                              Efriim @quicksilver
                              last edited by

                              @quicksilver
                              Yeah probably got to reboot for that. I didn't bother looking at the theme when you ruled it out, I probably wouldn't be able to notice anything anyway. Glad you figured it out.

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                              • R
                                Retropia.rd
                                last edited by

                                Hi all, I found out that the problem occurs when the RPi4 is configured to display 4K. If you change the /boot/config.txt and force 1080p, the problem goes away.

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                                • shavecatS
                                  shavecat @Retropia.rd
                                  last edited by

                                  @Retropia-rd
                                  Hey so i change the
                                  #hdmi_group=1
                                  #hdmi_mode=16
                                  too
                                  hdmi_group=1
                                  hdmi_mode=16

                                  But i still getting this error

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                                  • shavecatS
                                    shavecat @quicksilver
                                    last edited by

                                    @quicksilver
                                    Hey quicksilver
                                    im having the same thing.
                                    im stuck with that for a month now...
                                    but before that everything was fine like u said.

                                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27779/help-retropie-games-roms-going-back-to-emulationstation-sometimes?_=1600279649841

                                    how did u get it fix ? plz :)

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                                    • quicksilverQ
                                      quicksilver @shavecat
                                      last edited by

                                      @shavecat I'm fairly certain my issue was related to the theme I was using, try switching back to carbon theme, reboot your pi and see if that fixes it.

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                                      • shavecatS
                                        shavecat @quicksilver
                                        last edited by shavecat

                                        @quicksilver
                                        Thank u i will give a try :)

                                        so im still getting this on my runcommand.log and the game just go back to emulationsatin
                                        https://pastebin.com/KYeiA7DE

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