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    Failed to build emulationstation-kids

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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.

      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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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
                                last edited by

                                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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                                          timbellomo
                                          last edited by timbellomo

                                          Thanks so much. Updating the firmware got me sorted. It's showing the proper amount of memory now... It's just not booting into emulationstation. Just drops to console... working on that now.

                                          EDIT: It was the memory split. Reverted and now everything boots up again. Back to the beginning; installing emulationstation-kids.

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