Help! Won't boot Emulationstation!

bberlin1

Help! Completed locked out of Emulationstation! Getting the following error after bootup then it kicks me to the raspbian shell...

TERM environment variable not set.
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
what(): boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied: "/root/RetroPie/roms/pc"
Aborted
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

re: the /root/RetroPie/roms/pc, I used a command suggested in a separate forum to load dosbox pure but did so using the root login because I'm unable to edit config files or access putty with the pi login (which is another issue entirely).

Any help would be much appreciated! Really don't wan't to start over!

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mitu

@bberlin1 said in Help! Won't boot Emulationstation!:

re: the /root/RetroPie/roms/pc, I used a command suggested in a separate forum to load dosbox pure but did so using the root login because I'm unable to edit config files or access putty with the pi login (which is another issue entirely).

Yeah, you've run the RetroPie-Setup script as root and not with sudo, as it's normally done, and you've broken the ES configuration file by pointing all the rom folders to /root/RetroPie/roms.

What version of RetroPie are you using ? Post the details requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

bberlin1

@mitu UPDATE: I fixed it! Per your suggestion, went into the emulationstation.cfg file and found that the PC was pointing to root. Changed it to home/pi and now ES boots.

THANK YOU!

I'm still curious however-- if you have any insight into how to a) edit files from an ssh gui or b) access putty with my pi login, I would be very interested. I can only seem to do these things via the root login and would like to not have to run into these kinds of issues again.

mitu

@bberlin1 said in Help! Won't boot Emulationstation!:

I'm still curious however-- if you have any insight into how to a) edit files from an ssh gui or b) access putty with my pi login, I would be very interested. I can only seem to do these things via the root login and would like to not have to run into these kinds of issues again.

If you use Putty, you can edit the files via nano. Most of the configuration files are also available via file shares (under \\retropie\configs), so you can use a decent text editor from your PC (Notepad++/TextEdit) to edit the files. None of them require the usage of the root account for editing.