Retropie setup menu/Runcommand crashing in ES on Ubuntu

DjDiabolik

OMG... i have problably understand what's my issue... look that:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ /usr/bin/retropie.sh
dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti = 1
dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti = 0

Here i have tryed to launch retropie.sh from a manual opened terminal.... the tiocsti it's correctly setted to 1...

But in my case i need to SET this value at 0 only when i exit from emulationstation.

On my retropie.sh instead emulationstation it's correctly launched but immediatelly after the tiocsti it's setted back to 0 and runcommand it's not accessible :)

I think I'll avoid resetting it to zero for now....We said that the setting resets when the system reboots. I just hope I don't expose my NUC Mini PC to any risks during daily use...

DjDiabolik

Lol... founded another workaround..... right now my .local/share/application/retropie.desktop :

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar -- /usr/bin/retropie.sh
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[de_DE]=RetroPie
Name=RetroPie
Comment[de_DE]=RetroPie
Comment=retropie
Icon=/usr/local/share/icons/retropie.svg
Categories=Game

And this /usr/bin/retropie.sh :

#!/bin/bash

sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1

file=/tmp/file.$PPID
 
if ! [ -f $file ]; 
then 
    echo 1 >$file && sleep 1 && rm $file
else
    sleep 10 && exit 0
fi

_isRunning() {
    ps -o comm= -C "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -x "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
}
   
if ! _isRunning emulationstatio; then
    emulationstation
    #sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1
    #gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar -- emulationstation
    #sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=0
    #sudo gedit

fi

sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=0

exit 0

This apparently it's a good workaround.
basically run the retropie.sh directly in a windows terminal, the tiocsti it's setted correctly to 1. And after that emulationstation it's launched.
Since it is launched in a terminal window runcommand is now properly accessible also from my arcade stick..
So when i choose to exit from emulationstation tiocsti it's setted again to 0 as default and terminal windows it's closed himself.

I thinks it's a good solution.

Thanks in advance for support and and for future fixes that will give back the possibility to use the retropie setup script directly from emulationstation.

-- EDIT --

Little TWEAK Operation on retropie.sh... now it's :

#!/bin/bash

file=/tmp/file.$PPID
 
if ! [ -f $file ]; 
then 
    echo 1 >$file && sleep 1 && rm $file
else
    sleep 10 && exit 0
fi

_isRunning() {
    ps -o comm= -C "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -x "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
}
   
if ! _isRunning emulationstatio; then
    sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1
    emulationstation
    sudo sysctl -w dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=0
    #gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar -- emulationstation
    #sudo gedit
else
    wmctrl -a emulationstation
fi

exit 0

I have to install wmctrl to set focus to emulationstation if it's already runned.

All this it's to prevent a double istance if you made a erroneous double on retropie icon on left dock :)

mitu

The latest RetroPie-Setup version updares joy2key to a new version that's no longer dependant on dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti being modified from the default. You can give it a try by updating RetroPiet-Setup, joy2key will be automatically updated in the process.

DjDiabolik

@mitu

Yes I have seen the recent and latest commits.
Now I do all the updates... I edit everything and remove the "sysctl" entries from my retropie.sh and update you.

Should this also fix the 'retropie setup script' thing that crashes when launched from emulationstation?

DjDiabolik

@mitu no friends.... apparently the new joy2key it's not resolve the issue.

I have try to run a games and press a button during runcommand windows and there's happen this:

Open the detail it's appear this:

If you thinks it's usefull i can also try to run joy2key from terminal........ i try to edit this same post in a minute.

DjDiabolik

In a terminal it's happen this:

Try to lauch 'Retropie setup script' and other tools from emulationstation all goes in crash after you press a key or touch somethings on my arcade stick.

Look at here... for works good from terminal apparently i need to launch joy2key on sudo right now:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ sudo /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d
2024-10-16 03:21:20,549 DEBUG  Debugging enabled, running in foreground
2024-10-16 03:21:20,549 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 03:21:20,549 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 03:21:20,549 DEBUG  Joy map:
 {'left': 105, 'right': 106, 'up': 103, 'down': 108, 'a': 28, 'b': 57, 'x': 1, 'y': 0, 'pageup': 104, 'pagedown': 109}
2024-10-16 03:21:23,482 DEBUG  Using SDL Version 2.30.0, PySDL2 version 0.9.16
2024-10-16 03:21:23,483 DEBUG  Creating uinput keyboard devices with events: [(1, 105), (1, 106), (1, 103), (1, 108), (1, 28), (1, 57), (1, 1), (1, 0), (1, 104), (1, 109)]
2024-10-16 03:21:23,536 DEBUG  Joystick #0 DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick added
2024-10-16 03:21:23,536 DEBUG  Added configuration for known device DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick, hats: {}, buttons: {6: 'pagedown', 4: 'pageup', 0: 'y', 2: 'x', 1: 'b', 3: 'a'}, axis: {0: [(-1, 'left'), (1, 'right')], 1: [(1, 'down'), (-1, 'up')]}
2024-10-16 03:21:32,167 DEBUG  Events to emit: ['down']
2024-10-16 03:21:32,168 DEBUG  Emitting input code 108
^[[B2024-10-16 03:21:41,959 DEBUG  Events to emit: ['up']
2024-10-16 03:21:41,959 DEBUG  Emitting input code 103
^[[A2024-10-16 03:21:43,827 DEBUG  Events to emit: ['left']
2024-10-16 03:21:43,828 DEBUG  Emitting input code 105
^[[D2024-10-16 03:21:45,544 DEBUG  Events to emit: ['right']
2024-10-16 03:21:45,544 DEBUG  Emitting input code 106
^[[C^C2024-10-16 03:21:47,829 DEBUG  /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py exiting cleanly
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$

Emulationstation how use current joy2key ? By sudo or not ?

mitu

@DjDiabolik said in Retropie setup menu/Runcommand crashing in ES on Ubuntu:

Emulationstation how use current joy2key ? By sudo or not ?

The RetroPie setup (or the other dialog based configuration tools) is using sudo to launch, but not runcommand. Your user needs to be part of the input group, which apparently is not done by default on Ubuntu ?

I'll modify the installation routine to make sure the user is part of the input group, so the 1st error (for runcommand ) does not happen anymore.
EDIT: ok, update RetroPie-Setup and then re-login/reboot, the next run of runcommand (starting a game) should not give you an error.

DjDiabolik

@mitu ok... i have unpdate 'retropie setup script' to last recent commit.... and reboot my ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

Apparently from terminal nothings it's changed :

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d
2024-10-16 12:07:25,089 DEBUG  Debugging enabled, running in foreground
2024-10-16 12:07:25,089 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 12:07:25,089 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 12:07:25,090 DEBUG  Joy map:
 {'left': 105, 'right': 106, 'up': 103, 'down': 108, 'a': 28, 'b': 57, 'x': 1, 'y': 0, 'pageup': 104, 'pagedown': 109}
2024-10-16 12:07:27,766 DEBUG  Using SDL Version 2.30.0, PySDL2 version 0.9.16
2024-10-16 12:07:27,766 DEBUG  Creating uinput keyboard devices with events: [(1, 105), (1, 106), (1, 103), (1, 108), (1, 28), (1, 57), (1, 1), (1, 0), (1, 104), (1, 109)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 608, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 600, in main
    event_loop(configs, joy_map)
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 334, in event_loop
    kbd = uinput.Device(events=keyboard_events, name="Joy2Key Keyboard")
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 178, in __init__
    self.__uinput_fd = fd or fdopen()
                             ^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 84, in fdopen
    return _libsuinput.suinput_open()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 70, in _open_error_handler
    raise OSError(code, msg)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Failed to open the uinput device: Permission denied
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$

From emulationstation i need to test to run one games..... edit in a moment.

DjDiabolik

From emulationstation no works.... it's impossibile to open the "runcommand" option and i have tryed to press many times my controller buttons but not working.
The "runcommand" option it's not open also if i click some keyboard buttons....

mitu

@DjDiabolik Is your user in the input group` ?

DjDiabolik

@mitu said in Retropie setup menu/Runcommand crashing in ES on Ubuntu:

@DjDiabolik Is your user in the input group` ?

How do I find out?

mitu

@DjDiabolik You can run the id command and it should print the list of groups. However, it seems it's not enough on Ubuntu to enable write-access. I'll take a look again to see what options are available.
Thanks for testing.

mitu

Run the following command:

echo 'KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="input", MODE=0660' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/80-uinput.rules

and then reboot, afterwards see if the thee permission error still shows up when running as user joy2key_sdl or if runcommand menu works.

DjDiabolik

@mitu

So id output it's this:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ id
uid=1000(diabolik) gid=1000(diabolik) gruppi=1000(diabolik),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),107(input),122(lpadmin),135(lxd),136(sambashare)
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$

Before to run the seconds command i have tryed to look on /etc/udev/rules.d

and currently there's no file whit this name:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls
70-snap.canonical-livepatch.rules  70-snap.snapd-desktop-integration.rules  70-snap.snap-store.rules   99-input.rules
70-snap.firefox.rules              70-snap.snapd.rules                      70-snap.thunderbird.rules
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$

The echo commands paste this text and create this file.... it's correct ?

DjDiabolik

apparently it's continue to crash... after reboot:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ id
uid=1000(diabolik) gid=1000(diabolik) gruppi=1000(diabolik),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),107(input),122(lpadmin),135(lxd),136(sambashare)
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d
2024-10-16 13:43:19,919 DEBUG  Debugging enabled, running in foreground
2024-10-16 13:43:19,919 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 13:43:19,919 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 13:43:19,919 DEBUG  Joy map:
 {'left': 105, 'right': 106, 'up': 103, 'down': 108, 'a': 28, 'b': 57, 'x': 1, 'y': 0, 'pageup': 104, 'pagedown': 109}
2024-10-16 13:43:22,642 DEBUG  Using SDL Version 2.30.0, PySDL2 version 0.9.16
2024-10-16 13:43:22,643 DEBUG  Creating uinput keyboard devices with events: [(1, 105), (1, 106), (1, 103), (1, 108), (1, 28), (1, 57), (1, 1), (1, 0), (1, 104), (1, 109)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 608, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 600, in main
    event_loop(configs, joy_map)
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 334, in event_loop
    kbd = uinput.Device(events=keyboard_events, name="Joy2Key Keyboard")
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 178, in __init__
    self.__uinput_fd = fd or fdopen()
                             ^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 84, in fdopen
    return _libsuinput.suinput_open()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 70, in _open_error_handler
    raise OSError(code, msg)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Failed to open the uinput device: Permission denied
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$

or also this info can be usefull ??

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ cd /etc/udev/rules.d
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls
70-snap.canonical-livepatch.rules  70-snap.snapd-desktop-integration.rules  70-snap.snap-store.rules   80-uinput.rules
70-snap.firefox.rules              70-snap.snapd.rules                      70-snap.thunderbird.rules  99-input.rules
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-uinput.rules
KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="input", MODE=0660
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$

@mitu in about 30 minutes i need to move from my home to my brothers....

if need i can continue test from here but it's a different hardware.. different username but same os.. also on my brother it's present ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS.

DjDiabolik

anyway... right now "runcommands" option work.... but only if i press button on keyboard.
I can press so many times button on my arcade stick and it's not work.
@mitu

DjDiabolik

@mitu directly from my brother house. different hardware... same distro ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and same crash also after last 'retropie setup' commit and reboot system:
[url=https://ibb.co/yknQxzS][img]https://i.ibb.co/7pJ1034/image.png[/img][/url]

Also from terminal:

mrocco86@mrocco86-VM40B:~$ /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d
2024-10-16 21:17:09,584 DEBUG  Debugging enabled, running in foreground
2024-10-16 21:17:09,584 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 21:17:09,585 DEBUG  Cannot determine input code for "0x00", value ignored
2024-10-16 21:17:09,585 DEBUG  Joy map:
 {'left': 105, 'right': 106, 'up': 103, 'down': 108, 'a': 28, 'b': 57, 'x': 1, 'y': 0, 'pageup': 104, 'pagedown': 109}
2024-10-16 21:17:09,994 DEBUG  Using SDL Version 2.30.0, PySDL2 version 0.9.16
2024-10-16 21:17:09,994 DEBUG  Creating uinput keyboard devices with events: [(1, 105), (1, 106), (1, 103), (1, 108), (1, 28), (1, 57), (1, 1), (1, 0), (1, 104), (1, 109)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 608, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 600, in main
    event_loop(configs, joy_map)
  File "/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py", line 334, in event_loop
    kbd = uinput.Device(events=keyboard_events, name="Joy2Key Keyboard")
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 178, in __init__
    self.__uinput_fd = fd or fdopen()
                             ^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 84, in fdopen
    return _libsuinput.suinput_open()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 70, in _open_error_handler
    raise OSError(code, msg)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Failed to open the uinput device: Permission denied
mrocco86@mrocco86-VM40B:~$

mitu

The latest update should fix the permissions error. If you still have an error with permissions, check if the /dev/uinput file is writable by the input group by running ls -l /dev/uinput. It should output something like:


pi@retropie$ ls -l /dev/uinput
crw-rw---- 1 root input 10, 223 Oct 16 16:18 /dev/uinput

Also, please don't re-post the same picture/screenshot, it's enough to mention the actual error in your post.

DjDiabolik

@mitu said in Retropie setup menu/Runcommand crashing in ES on Ubuntu:

Also, please don't re-post the same picture/screenshot, it's enough to mention the actual error in your post.

it's not the same screenshot.... that's same exact issue in a totally different hardware. it was also to verify that the exact same problem was present in a different system than the one I use daily at my home.

So... right now i have installed the recent commit on my pc:

It's need to reboot my PC to apply current the new changes?

Simply because the write permission it's different right now:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ ls -l /dev/uinput
crw------- 1 root root 10, 223 ott 17 12:00 /dev/uinput
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$

if that doesn't work how do I fix the permissions on that file?

Now in that folder i have this file:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls
70-snap.canonical-livepatch.rules  70-snap.snapd-desktop-integration.rules  70-snap.snap-store.rules   80-rpi-uinput.rules  99-input.rules
70-snap.firefox.rules              70-snap.snapd.rules                      70-snap.thunderbird.rules  80-uinput.rules
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$

80-uinput.rules it's the file we have created yesterday using echo command.
80-rpi-uinput.rules it's problably created right now from recent commit.

The files are essentially identical in content:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-rpi-uinput.rules
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="input"
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-uinput.rules
KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="input", MODE=0660
diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:/etc/udev/rules.d$

if i can remove one of the two let me know and possibly i can do it simply with the rm command?

mitu

It's need to reboot my PC to apply current the new changes?

For Ubuntu, it might be needed since uinput is not a module, but a kernel built-in and a reboot may be required for the udev rule to applied.

if i can remove one of the two let me know and possibly i can do it simply with the rm command?

You can remove the 80-uinput.rules file, it's identical to 80-rpi-uinput.rules, which is created by RetroPie-Setup.