Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation

[aaronouthier]

@mitu said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

Re-install the libsdl2-dev and libsdl2-2.0-0 packages with their version from the Ubuntu repositories and then re-compile EmulationStation. Make sure your user is in the input, video and render groups and try to start EmulationStation. If that doesn't work, then use a minimal desktop environment to run the front-end.

User is only in the input and video groups. No render listed with the groups command.

Just added that group and restarted the system. ES still crashes. I will troubleshoot again in the morning. G'night.

[aaronouthier]

Would compiling ES with debugging symbols embedded help? If so, how would I make sure those are enabled?

I am free now, so going to try your most recent suggestion.

[aaronouthier]

There is no retropie.cfg file in that location. I opened RetroArch.cfg, but couldn't find the string in question.

I have removed all Retropie packages, and am recompiling now to see if I missed something.

[mitu]

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

There is no retropie.cfg file in that location.

You can create the file and add own_sdl2=0 in it, so RetroPie-Setup will use the distro's SDL packages instead of trying to build its own.

[aaronouthier]

@mitu Well, I shelved the project for a good 15 days. Back at it again today. Tried your latest idea/suggestion, and...

It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now facing a ES Welcome screen!!!

Halleluiah!!!

Thanks for all of your help and support in this! Couldn't have done it without you.

(I kind of wish I had tried it 2 weeks ago ;)

[aaronouthier]

@mitu
At first, I was excited! Until I tried to actually play a game...

RetroArch started core dumping upon launch. I never did get it to work.

I found and extracted the core dump, and ran a backtrace:

Reading symbols from /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch...
(No debugging symbols found in /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch)
[New LWP 1771]
[New LWP 1769]
[New LWP 1770]
[New LWP 1773]
[New LWP 1775]
[New LWP 1778]
[New LWP 1776]
[New LWP 1774]
[New LWP 1781]
[New LWP 1779]
[New LWP 1777]
[New LWP 1783]
[New LWP 1780]
[New LWP 1782]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xac148b90 in ?? ()
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xacabb9c0 (LWP 1771))]
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xac148b90 in  ()
#1  0xb3e4d77a in XNoOp () at /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libX11.so.6
#2  0xb5de4f20 in  () at /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so

Output of Runlog:

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-vecx/vecx_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/vectrex/retroarch.cfg "/home/retro/RetroPie/roms/vectrex/HyperChase - Auto Race (World).zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1329:   871 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-vecx/vecx_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/vectrex/retroarch.cfg "/home/retro/RetroPie/roms/vectrex/HyperChase - Auto Race (World).zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

[mitu]

@aaronouthier Are you running from a desktop (X11) session ? The backtrace is not very useful, since the crash seems to happen outside of RetroArch, in the X11 libraries. I'm afraid that without a similar device (which I don't have) I can't be of any more help.

[aaronouthier]

@mitu Not running from a desktop session. I don't even know if/how I can. There doesn't appear to be a Window Manager installed. I don't know if enough pieces are available to run a full X11 environment.

I did check the libraries listed, and both are symlinks, as follows:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct  2  2023 /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.4.0

/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so -> /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/mali-egl/libmali.so

The 2nd of those seems a bit bizarre? That shared Library points to a library with a different name. Is that expected/normal?

[mitu]

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

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The 2nd of those seems a bit bizarre? That shared Library points to a library with a different name. Is that expected/normal?

Yes, it's not bizarre. Try installing a desktop environment, start a fullscren xterm and run emulationstation from it. See if you get the same crash with RetroArch or other emulators.

[aaronouthier]

@mitu
I opened an xterm, and from there ran emulationstation, but it gives me a black screen, no image appears. I am getting a signal to my TV though.

When I kill the emulationstation process, it goes back to X11 desktop with the xterm.

I am including the latest contents of es_log.txt:

Mar 21 12:21:24 lvl2:   EmulationStation - v2.11.2rp, built Mar 15 2025 - 10:33:02
Mar 21 12:21:24 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
Mar 21 12:21:24 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
Mar 21 12:21:24 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
Mar 21 12:21:24 lvl2:   Creating window...
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   Created window successfully.
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   GL vendor:
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   GL renderer:
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   GL version:
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   Checking available OpenGL extensions...
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:    ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl1:   Tried to enable vsync, but failed! (Negative swap interval unsupported in this GL)
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl2:   Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg...
Mar 21 12:21:25 lvl1:   System "arcade" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "channelf" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "coleco" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "fba" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "fds" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "gamegear" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "gb" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "gba" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "gbc" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:26 lvl1:   System "mame-libretro" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "mastersystem" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "megadrive" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "msx" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "neogeo" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "nes" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "ngp" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "ngpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:27 lvl1:   System "pcengine" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "psx" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/retro/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml"...
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "sega32x" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "segacd" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "sg-1000" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "snes" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "vectrex" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:21:28 lvl1:   System "zxspectrum" has no games! Ignoring it.
Mar 21 12:23:11 lvl2:   EmulationStation cleanly shutting down.

Yes, I am aware that no games are available.

[aaronouthier]

@mitu
Seem to be having issues with GL now?

I recently moved the board to a 4k TV however, so I can try editing config.ini to force a more reasonable resolution.

[aaronouthier]

It seems that the distro-released SDL2 binary doesn't have support for the built-in Mali GPU on this board.

Revered back to RetroPie's source install. Now-Recompiling Core and Main packages.

[aaronouthier]

Wiped the Install for a fresh 22.04 LTS. Following the docs very closely but will add the __platform var this time to the initial retropie-setup command.