emulation station crashed

[mitu]

@wolfing277 Not sure I understand your last update. My question was - does EmulationStation still crashes without the arcade controller connected ?

[wolfing277]

@mitu yes, it still crash I tried without the arcade controller, instead I tried using logitech controller

[mitu]

Just to make sure, what is your RetroPie version ?
Run an update for RetroPie and the included packages by typing at the terminal:

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

followed by an update from the setup script menus.
If you still get a crash from EmulationStation, then start it from the terminal with

emulationstation --debug

and then post again the log file - it should have more info included.

[wolfing277]

@mitu I'm current using retropie 4.8 version, I do what you tell me, but after I did that if I press ''x'' to start emulationstation it doesn't do nothing.
Anyway here is my new log https://pastebin.com/raw/uXUqtx6m

[wolfing277]

@wolfing277 I saw the log and I think that retropie try to start an emulator but there isn't any game so it hasn't got someting to launch and then he crash

[mitu]

@wolfing277 Looking at the detailed log I'm still not convinced it's not a connection issue (even with the Logitech controller).

Are the USB devices connected directly to the Pi ? Or is there an USB hub in-between ?

Can you test the controller, from the command line, by running:

jstest /dev/input/js0

and see if there are any inputs/disconnects present ? Normally the test should show the inputs on the controller and change the values shown only when you press something on the controller. If the output changes - or the controller is disconnected - without any interaction, then it's a connection problem.

[windg]

I have the same controller, it's a wireless controller, so far i don't have disconnect issues.

[wolfing277]

@mitu In my rapsberry there isn't any usb device or something else between it and the controller. The controller is connected directly to the raspberry. When I did the command to test the controller input it works just fine and it didn't disconnect

[mitu]

@wolfing277 Then it means the issue is somewhere else and it's not related to the input handling in EmulationStation.
Can you get a system log, after the ES crash ?
Run

dmesg > $HOME/RetroPie/roms/dmesg.log

and the browse to \\retropie\roms\dmesg.log and post the file's contents on pastebin.com.

[wolfing277]

@mitu I fixed retropie by adding some roms