RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start

Zigurana

It seems like the correct way of doing it. Can you show the buildlog? (put it up at pastebin)

Rion

@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

It seems like the correct way of doing it. Can you show the buildlog? (put it up at pastebin)

I'm sorry but could you point me to where I might fint the buildlog? Cause once the installation finishes it goes back to the Retropie setup script.

Zigurana

Yeah, I had to look them up as well :-)
You will need to access your pi via SCP or something similar, at least to be able to easily transfer thefiles to another computer.

You can find the logs at home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/logs
They are named by date and will be gz files (e.g. rps_2016-04-13_204558.log.gz), which you can extract using 7Zip or somesuch.
Then please upload them to http://pastebin.com/ and select bash as the syntax highlighter.

Rion

@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

Yeah, I had to look them up as well :-)
You will need to access your pi via SCP or something similar, at least to be able to easily transfer thefiles to another computer.

You can find the logs at home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/logs
They are named by date and will be gz files (e.g. rps_2016-04-13_204558.log.gz), which you can extract using 7Zip or somesuch.
Then please upload them to http://pastebin.com/ and select bash as the syntax highlighter.

Sorry about that @Zigurana , i did a format of my SD card and had to the the installation all over again.

Here it is :)

Child friendly EmulationStation buildlog 22.04.2016

Zigurana

Well, thats odd.
The logging looks absolutely fine to me.
Maybe one of the @administrators could have a glance?
I am trying to replicate this on a fresh image as we speak, see if I can replicate your issue.

Zigurana

Ok, so it replicates all right.
The script being called is: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh
which complains: ./emulationstation: not found
But when I start that manually from that directory, it loads without issue!
This is the complete script:

#!/bin/sh

while true; do
    rm -f /tmp/es-restart /tmp/es-sysrestart /tmp/es-shutdown
    ./emulationstation "$@"
    [ -f /tmp/es-restart ] && continue
    if [ -f /tmp/es-sysrestart ]; then
        rm -f /tmp/es-sysrestart
        sudo reboot
        break
    fi
    if [ -f /tmp/es-shutdown ]; then
        rm -f /tmp/es-shutdown
        sudo poweroff
        break
    fi
    break
done

So that seems normal as well.
Somehow it cannot find the binary in opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/, while it clearly is there.

Rion

Here are a few more findings that i found out + a crash to command line..

In Console


pi@retropie:~ $ emulationstation (enter)
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh: 5: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh: ./emulationstation: not found
pi@retropie:~ cd /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids
pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids $ emulationstation (enter)

Well when i go there and start it, it starts.

Setting up all system to show and hide some games for every system and a couple for kid game and favorites.
Changed to Kid mode and also tried Kiosk mode. On the main screen it shows 1 Kid friendly game and 1 favorite and so on for every system. But when i select a system nothing shows up and when i try to go out to the main screen using B button it crashes to cmd line with this error message.

emulationstation: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation-kids/es-core/src/components/IList.h:125: const UserData& IList<EntryData, UserData>::getSelected() const [with EntryData = TextListData; UserData = FileData*]: Assertion `size() > 0' failed.
Aborted

Changed settings from Parse Gamelist On/Off , Save Metadata On/Off same crash every time.

Zigurana

Is this with show favorites only on or off?

Zigurana

and if you look at the gamelist.xml data directly, do you see the values set correctly? (true/false for kidgame and fav).

Rion

@Zigurana

Yes everything seems in order here.
sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
	<game>
		<path>./Cave Story.sh</path>
		<name>Cave Story</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>false</favorite>
		<kidgame>true</kidgame>
		<hidden>false</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./Doom.sh</path>
		<name>Doom</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>false</favorite>
		<kidgame>false</kidgame>
		<hidden>true</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./Duke Nukem 3D.sh</path>
		<name>Duke Nukem 3D</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0.000000</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>false</favorite>
		<kidgame>false</kidgame>
		<hidden>false</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./Quake.sh</path>
		<name>Quake</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>false</favorite>
		<kidgame>false</kidgame>
		<hidden>true</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./Quake III Arena.sh</path>
		<name>Quake III Arena</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>true</favorite>
		<kidgame>false</kidgame>
		<hidden>true</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./Super Mario War.sh</path>
		<name>Super Mario War</name>
		<desc></desc>
		<image></image>
		<thumbnail></thumbnail>
		<rating>0.000000</rating>
		<releasedate>not-a-date-time</releasedate>
		<developer>unknown</developer>
		<publisher>unknown</publisher>
		<genre>unknown</genre>
		<players>1</players>
		<favorite>false</favorite>
		<kidgame>false</kidgame>
		<hidden>false</hidden>
		<playcount>0</playcount>
		<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
	</game>
</gameList>

Edit:
@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

Is this with show favorites only on or off?

Yes i tried every combination known..

Zigurana

Ok, I'll need some more time to figure this out. That will not be before the end of this weekend, sorry.
In the meantime could you tell me under which circumstances exactly you observe the crash? It's only when you back out of a certain game-list? Any game-list? In all UI modi, even Full?

Rion

@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

Ok, I'll need some more time to figure this out. That will not be before the end of this weekend, sorry.
In the meantime could you tell me under which circumstances exactly you observe the crash? It's only when you back out of a certain game-list? Any game-list? In all UI modi, even Full?

Only in Kid and Kiosk mode. When in Full mode this don't happen. And only when first entering a system and pressing the back (B) button.

No problem at all, i do know that family and friends go firsthand before everything else.

Have a great weekend! :)

BuZz

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/23d96b6a5667c6db1c1876b99841161f8478729a

has this been included in your fork ? This will be needed. we no longer pushd to the ES folder before launching from /usr/bin/emulationstation script.

If updating retropie-setup script and doing a full binary install, and above changes are done in the ES fork, it will need to be reinstalled from experiemental menu.

Rion

@BuZz said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/23d96b6a5667c6db1c1876b99841161f8478729a

has this been included in your fork ? This will be needed. we no longer pushd to the ES folder before launching from /usr/bin/emulationstation script.

If updating retropie-setup script and doing a full binary install, and above changes are done in the ES fork, it will need to be reinstalled from experiemental menu.

That should solve the startup problems but the crash to cmd is something different, or is it?

Zigurana

I'll try to update the fork tonight.

The crash is likely due to something else yes, but I have an inkling what might have caused it. Just need some time to take a proper look at it.

Zigurana

Ok, the starting should work now, the script has been updated.

Rion

@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

Ok, the starting should work now, the script has been updated.

Great!
Any new insight on the crash bug?

Tarran

I've tried a fresh install and I'm still getting the error when the script tries to start. Do I need to do anything other than updating the install script to make sure the install is pulling the latest version?

Zigurana

Ah & =%:€! I've pushed it to the wrong branch. Sorry.
I'll take another look on sunday.
In the meantime you can change the script manually, it's only 2 lines (see Buzz's link above).
Fixing the crash needs priority in any case...

Rion

@Zigurana said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

Ah & =%:€! I've pushed it to the wrong branch. Sorry.
I'll take another look on sunday.
In the meantime you can change the script manually, it's only 2 lines (see Buzz's link above).
Fixing the crash needs priority in any case...

Looking forward for a fix :)

Thank you