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Emulation Station won't boot after removing Child Friendly version

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    soonerdoc
    last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 01:21

    Hello all. I hope this is the correct place to post.

    I installed the experimental child friendly version of emulation station to test out the favorites option. Seemed to really slow down the system so I removed the child friendly version (uninstalled it) and now emulation station will not boot. Retropie starts up and then crashes to a command line screen. See the following message:

    /usr/bin/emulationstation: line 21: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh: No such file or directory.

    Seems as if it is still looking for the child friendly version after I uninstalled it. Any help getting the regular version of emulation station up and running would be very much appreciated. Here is that file:

    #!/bin/bash

    if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "emulationstation should not be run as root. If you used 'sudo emulationstation' please run without sudo."
    exit 1
    fi

    if [[ "$(uname --machine)" != 86 ]]; then
    if [[ -n "$(pidof X)" ]]; then
    echo "X is running. Please shut down X in order to mitigate problems with losing keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE."
    exit 1
    fi
    fi

    save current tty/vt number for use with X so it can be launched on the correct tty

    tty=$(tty)
    export TTY="${tty:8:1}"

    clear
    tput civis
    "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh" "$@"
    if [[ 0 -eq 139 ]]; then
    dialog --cr-wrap --no-collapse --msgbox "Emulation Station crashed!\n\nIf this is your first boot of RetroPie - make sure you are using the correct image for your system.\n\nCheck your rom file/folder permissions and if running on a Raspberry Pi, make sure your gpu_split is set high enough and/or switch back to using carbon theme.\n\nFor more help please use the RetroPie forum." 20 60 >/dev/tty
    fi
    tput cnorm

    B 1 Reply Last reply 28 Jan 2017, 01:32 Reply Quote 0
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      BuZz administrators @soonerdoc
      last edited by BuZz 28 Jan 2017, 01:32

      @soonerdoc run sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh and install the main ES version from Packages -> Core Packages (if it shows as installed, remove it and re-install)

      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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        soonerdoc @BuZz
        last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 01:56

        @BuZz Did that and now get retropie startup screen then crashes to command line and says

        Segmentation fault

        B 1 Reply Last reply 28 Jan 2017, 02:26 Reply Quote 0
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          BuZz administrators @soonerdoc
          last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 02:26

          @soonerdoc If you install ES from source it will be fixed (or wait 30 mins and re-install from binary).

          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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