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    • BuZzB
      BuZz administrators
      last edited by

      did you have other things running ? Should be enough memory - or did you change anything else relating to building from source (eg number of parallel jobs etc).

      Or have you removed the default swap ?

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        timbellomo
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        It's possible it's related to the swap. I only kind of know what I'm doing here. Basically, I burned the image to a usb drive after configuring my pi for USB booting. Changed a few items in config, and updated fstab. I don't recall seeing a swap partition if that's what you mean. Nothing else of note... I launched the script from within the interface, then went to add the package.

        I'm guessing that no one has experimental binary sources from the lack of response. Are these build times expected?

        proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
        /dev/sda1  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
        /dev/sda2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
        # a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
        #   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
        
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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators @timbellomo
          last edited by BuZz

          @timbellomo what is the output of free ?

          ES takes a little while to build, but I can't tell you exactly how long.

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            timbellomo
            last edited by timbellomo

            free:

            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
            Mem:        120196      93880      26316        440       2196      20096
            -/+ buffers/cache:      71588      48608
            Swap:       404472     268136     136336
            

            Granted, it's building again... Stuck on 4% (HelpStyle.cpp) for about 30 minutes. FYI, i dropped GPU to 32.

            df -h:

            Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
            /dev/root        29G  4.5G   23G  17% /
            devtmpfs         55M     0   55M   0% /dev
            tmpfs            59M     0   59M   0% /dev/shm
            tmpfs            59M  4.8M   54M   9% /run
            tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
            tmpfs            59M     0   59M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
            /dev/sda1        57M   21M   37M  36% /boot
            
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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators @timbellomo
              last edited by BuZz

              @timbellomo You are low on memory. Are you sure you have a RPI3. Looks more like you have a 256 or 512MB Raspberry Pi 1 -depending on split. (in which case you should lower gpu split to 32 for compiling probably).

              What's the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

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                timbellomo
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                if I don't have a Pi 3, i'm going to have some strong words with MicroCenter.

                processor       : 0
                model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
                BogoMIPS        : 76.80
                Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
                CPU implementer : 0x41
                CPU architecture: 7
                CPU variant     : 0x0
                CPU part        : 0xd03
                CPU revision    : 4
                
                processor       : 1
                model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
                BogoMIPS        : 76.80
                Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
                CPU implementer : 0x41
                CPU architecture: 7
                CPU variant     : 0x0
                CPU part        : 0xd03
                CPU revision    : 4
                
                processor       : 2
                model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
                BogoMIPS        : 76.80
                Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
                CPU implementer : 0x41
                CPU architecture: 7
                CPU variant     : 0x0
                CPU part        : 0xd03
                CPU revision    : 4
                
                processor       : 3
                model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
                BogoMIPS        : 76.80
                Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
                CPU implementer : 0x41
                CPU architecture: 7
                CPU variant     : 0x0
                CPU part        : 0xd03
                CPU revision    : 4
                
                Hardware        : BCM2709
                Revision        : a22082
                Serial          : 0000000068e065c1
                
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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators
                  last edited by

                  You do, but you don't have the right amount of free ram. Are you sure about your gpu split ?

                  Please post me the contents of your /boot/config.txt

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                    timbellomo
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for your help... sorry for the delay. I'm in the middle selling a house and haggling with real estate agents:

                    pi@retropie:~ $ tail /boot/config.txt
                    
                    # Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
                    dtparam=audio=on
                    #gpu_mem_256=128
                    #gpu_mem_512=256
                    #gpu_mem_1024=256
                    overscan_scale=1
                    
                    program_usb_boot_mode=1
                    gpu_mem=32
                    
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                    • BuZzB
                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by BuZz

                      All of it please. Also the output of uname -a.

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                        timbellomo
                        last edited by

                        sorry...

                        /boot/config.txt:
                        http://pastebin.com/hpba4CQ1

                        uname -a:
                        Linux retropie 4.4.26-v7+ #915 SMP Thu Oct 20 17:08:44 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

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                        • BuZzB
                          BuZz administrators @timbellomo
                          last edited by

                          @timbellomo please sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to update firmware/kernel. then boot up and do free again.

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                          • BuZzB
                            BuZz administrators
                            last edited by

                            The full output of dmesg would be useful too. thanks.

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                              timbellomo
                              last edited by

                              dmesg:
                              http://pastebin.com/1GGexvsR

                              note: i was building again, but Ctrl+C'd it to run the upgrade

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                              • BuZzB
                                BuZz administrators
                                last edited by

                                Something's definitely wrong - did you update the firmware/kernel via rpi-update at any point ?

                                [    0.000000] Memory: 111528K/131072K available (6348K kernel code, 432K rwdata, 1716K rodata, 476K init, 764K bss, 11352K reserved, 8192K cma-reserved)
                                

                                Let's see when you have updated to the current firmware/kernel

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                                • BuZzB
                                  BuZz administrators
                                  last edited by

                                  Are you running a standard RetroPie image downloaded from our site or something custom ?

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                                    timbellomo
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                                    i burned retropie-4.1-rpi2_rpi3.img. 99% sure from your site. But as I said, I'm running it 100% off of USB, without any SD card. After dist-upgrade it doesn't boot at all anymore :/. Nothing on screen

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                                    • BuZzB
                                      BuZz administrators @timbellomo
                                      last edited by

                                      @timbellomo I've not done any booting off USB, but you will want to probably request for help from raspberrypi.org forums where the firmware/kernel devs etc are. I can't really advise further (It's a Raspbian/firmware issue).

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                                        timbellomo
                                        last edited by

                                        copied bootcode.bin and start.elf from backup and it's booting again.

                                        new dmesg:
                                        http://pastebin.com/6vJKQkgw

                                        i haven't updated the firmware/kernel via rpi-update.

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                                        • BuZzB
                                          BuZz administrators
                                          last edited by BuZz

                                          There is an issue with the firmware/kernel you are running I think - I cannot advise further and if updating stops it booting, perhaps there is something wrong with your usb booting set-up. I would report to raspberrypi.org and get some advice from there.

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                                          • BuZzB
                                            BuZz administrators
                                            last edited by BuZz

                                            Also see this - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1028131#p1028131

                                            Read from that post.

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