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    Lubuntu 19.10/Retropie Font error

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @Jumpa
      last edited by

      @Jumpa Re-installing just one package will not take that long.

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        Jumpa
        last edited by Jumpa

        Ok, I removed and then reinstalled the core package emulationstation. Here the: log (same error BTW).

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by mitu

          It looks like your RetroPie-Setup installation path is non standard - it should be /home/user/RetroPie-Setup, but you've cloned the repository to /home/user/Desktop/RetroPie-Setup.
          Try again the - full - installation from /home/user/RetroPie-Setup.

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            Jumpa
            last edited by Jumpa

            Started from scratch (reinstalled even lubuntu). Setup installation in standard path (/home/user/Retropie-Setup), the resources folder is in place. Same error. Give up? This is the output of "emulationstation --debug":

            Apr 21 13:47:47 lvl2:   EmulationStation - v2.9.1rp, built Apr 21 2020 - 11:04:53
Apr 21 13:47:47 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   Creating window...
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   Created window successfully.
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   GL vendor:  
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   GL renderer:
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   GL version:  
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:   Checking available OpenGL extensions...
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl2:    ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
Apr 21 13:47:48 lvl1:   Tried to enable vsync, but failed! (No OpenGL context has been made current)
emulationstation: /home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:398: void Font::renderTextCache(TextCache*): Assertion `*it->textureIdPtr != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

            OpenGL version:

            OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 19.2.8
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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by

              It looks like your old PC doesn't support OpenGL 2, which is required by EmulationStation to work. What GPU do you have in the system ?

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              • J
                Jumpa
                last edited by Jumpa

                It has an Intel Atom D525 with integrated graphics...GMA 3150 I think.

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @Jumpa
                  last edited by

                  According to this page, it does indeed limited to OpenGL 1.5. Even if EmulationStation would run, you'll most likely hit the same limitation when running emulators.

                  Get a more recent system, with a GPU capable of at least OpenGL 2.1.

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                  • J
                    Jumpa
                    last edited by

                    Well, I managed to enable OpenGL 2.1 with this tutorial:

                    OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 19.2.8

                    But i keep receiving the font error...so my doubt remains.

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @Jumpa
                      last edited by

                      @Jumpa Can you post a debug log ?

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                      • T
                        TheRavensGuild
                        last edited by

                        @mitu I'm struggling with the same issue. I have open GL 2.0, so I don't think that's the problem.

                        Please help!

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
                          last edited by

                          @TheRavensGuild Post your es_log.txt file to see if you have the same error or not.

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                            TheRavensGuild @mitu
                            last edited by

                            @mitu I'm still pretty new with this. where would I find said file?

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
                              last edited by

                              @TheRavensGuild In $HOME/.emulationstation. Or you could take the advice above and run emulationstation --debug from an xterm/gnome-terminal windows and post the output.

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                                TheRavensGuild @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @mitu I got this

                                May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	EmulationStation - v2.9.1rp, built May 11 2020 - 14:32:55
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Creating window...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Created window successfully.
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL vendor:   
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL renderer: 
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL version:  
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Checking available OpenGL extensions...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	 ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
May 12 22:17:49 lvl1: 	Tried to enable vsync, but failed! (No OpenGL context has been made current)
emulationstation: /home/name/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:398: void Font::renderTextCache(TextCache*): Assertion `*it->textureIdPtr != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Sure enough, looks identical to the original poster's error, which makes me believe you don't have accelerated OpenGL 2.0. Can you post the output of glxinfo to pastebin.com ? What hardware/GPU do you have ?

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                                  • T
                                    TheRavensGuild @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    @mitu https://pastebin.com/w4bDw33C

                                    Im running an Intel Atom N455, and integrated graphics

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
                                      last edited by

                                      @TheRavensGuild Your card doesn't support OpenGL 2:

                                      ..
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 20.0.4
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                                      • T
                                        TheRavensGuild @mitu
                                        last edited by

                                        @mitu Oh. Is there any way around this?

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          You can try an older EmulationStation version, by modifying the scriptmodule for EmulationStation to use 2.9.0 instead of the stable branch. After that, re-install from source the emulationstation package. Note that modifying the script locally will break the RetroPie-Setup script updates, so you'll have to revert your changes before doing an update.

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                                            TheRavensGuild @TheRavensGuild
                                            last edited by

                                            On an interesting side note, i managed to boot EmulationStation while using ChromeRemoteDesktop, which is weird

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