Emulationstation crashed and Cannot allocate memory on pi4

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 :/.

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.

mitu

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.

quicksilver

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

mitu

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

quicksilver

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.

mitu

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 -@

quicksilver

@mitu Ill give this a shot thanks

quicksilver

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.

Efriim

@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.

Retropia.rd

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.

shavecat

@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

shavecat

@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 :)

quicksilver

@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.

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