I have the same issue. I hope the upcoming Duckstation psx emulator will not have this problem.

I follow a suggestion from the above URL (https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/issues/41#issuecomment-235270798) that dankcushions post, and the game doesn't freeze now !

I had to set psx cpu to 72
pcsx_rearmed_psxclock = "72"

It's hard to say if you have the proper power supply. Maybe check your power cable. I use an extra long one and keep that in mind when I am troubleshooting. Maybe your Pi or new power supply is malfunctioning. Do you have a second Pi to test your current card?

Since it's global it sounds like you might need to do some additional troubleshooting. I would almost reinstall with a fresh image on the SD card (or a different one) to rule out the SD card, image & configuration. Maybe a different USB drive if that's what you're using.

It seems there's a lot that could happening to make a determination or if it was a larger/build related issue more would be posting.

Updated the OP to indicate this problem is solved, and the solution.

@gollem1 should add, retropie v4.0.2

still happening :-(

just ordered the official raspberry pi charger.... we will see if that sorts it.
if not then im shit out of luck

@zerd_sword hi!

I have this very same issue with a recent purchase.

Got a RPi Zero W v1.1 and Retropie hangs after a while. It occurs while emulating SNES and NES (the only ones I tested), copying data via samba, browsing scraped metadata, and even while sitting idle on the ES screen. It seems random but it appears to happen after the system is warmed up, although I removd the official case I got to no avail.

I only have the one so I have no means to verify other board does work indeed, so I was wondering whether you figured out how to identify the faulty hardware. Was there anything different on the new one? Different manufacturer maybe?

Here's a picture of my board printed data: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iSIXzlZtVigopNxecTbHC9xb4ylrXizs/view?usp=drivesdk

If you have any info, please advise.

Thanks!

@BuZz I deleted the driver though, even sudo purge sixad

I only had time to run two tests on the 4.1.14 setups, and one on the 4.1.5. I hit F4 to exit out of Emulationstation (thought that would be best for the test).

So first things first, the Linux version:

uname -a on the 4.1.14 system says:

Linux retropie 4.4.26+ #915 Thu Oct 20 17:02:14 BST 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux

uname -a on the 4.1.5 system says:

Linux retropie 4.4.34+ #930 Wed Nov 23 15:12:30 GMT 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux

(which doesn't make sense to me because if I'm reading it right the 4.1.14 is dated about a month BEFORE the earlier 4.1.5? - yes I double checked it)

And the AikonCWD benchmark tests:

4.1.14 Pi Zero #1:

Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=43.3'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 gpu_freq=500 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 41.189 ms Download: 55.11 Mbits/s Upload: 11.64 Mbits/s Running CPU test... total time: 140.9210s min: 18.51ms avg: 56.36ms max: 167.58ms temp=48.2'C Running THREADS test... total time: 187.7533s min: 55.33ms avg: 75.09ms max: 175.15ms temp=47.6'C Running MEMORY test... Operations performed: 3145728 (123569.78 ops/sec) 3072.00 MB transferred (120.67 MB/sec) total time: 25.4571s min: 0.00ms avg: 0.03ms max: 79.21ms temp=47.6'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.00 seconds = 19.97 MB/sec temp=46.0'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 68.1628 s, 7.9 MB/s temp=44.4'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 24.8409 s, 21.6 MB/s temp=43.3'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

4.1.14, Pi Zero #2

Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=44.4'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 gpu_freq=500 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 39.223 ms Download: 52.72 Mbits/s Upload: 11.70 Mbits/s Running CPU test... total time: 141.0996s min: 23.53ms avg: 56.41ms max: 175.19ms temp=49.8'C Running THREADS test... total time: 179.6370s min: 49.04ms avg: 71.85ms max: 158.69ms temp=50.3'C Running MEMORY test... Operations performed: 3145728 (124335.28 ops/sec) 3072.00 MB transferred (121.42 MB/sec) total time: 25.3004s min: 0.00ms avg: 0.03ms max: 99.41ms temp=51.4'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds = 20.56 MB/sec temp=50.3'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 61.7905 s, 8.7 MB/s temp=48.7'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 24.8082 s, 21.6 MB/s temp=48.7'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

4.1.5, Pi Zero #2 again (#3 is scraping ROM's right now ;)

And FML.....are the repositories down???? I've tried this like 5 times now... pi@retropie:~ $ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aikoncwd/rpi-benchmark/master/rpi-benchmark.sh | sudo bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2172 100 2172 0 0 7028 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 7144 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmysqlclient18 mysql-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libmysqlclient18 mysql-common sysbench 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 702 kB/758 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,475 kB of additional disk space will be used. Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main mysql-common all 5.5.52-0+deb8u1 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main libmysqlclient18 armhf 5.5.52-0+deb8u1 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/mysql-common_5.5.52-0+deb8u1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/libmysqlclient18_5.5.52-0+deb8u1_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=51.4'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=400 sdram_freq=450 gpu_freq=300 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 47.37 ms Download: 31.19 Mbits/s Upload: 11.36 Mbits/s Running CPU test... bash: line 38: sysbench: command not found temp=51.4'C Running THREADS test... bash: line 43: sysbench: command not found temp=50.8'C Running MEMORY test... bash: line 48: sysbench: command not found temp=51.4'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 56 MB in 3.10 seconds = 18.04 MB/sec temp=51.9'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 73.4755 s, 7.3 MB/s temp=55.1'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 27.6583 s, 19.4 MB/s temp=55.1'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

@Corykrist1 My advice is to stop posting messages of this type if you want help.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
You have been repeatedly advised this by many posters offering to help.

@pelmen

Resurfacing this thread in case the O.P. had any solution.
I am having this same issue with my RPi0 and cannot find help anywhere. I have gone through the rigmarole you've been through with swapping out hardware. It has a fresh install of Retropie on a brand new memory card and freezes in E.S. when idle. I have done NO configuration and have yet to even add any ROMs. Once it's frozen at this point, I am not able to SSH into it to reboot.

Did you find any kind of fix to this?

@Aluvian you should open a new topic - your issue may be due to a completely different cause. Please be more specific as to which image you used also - eg filename etc.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

If you have done the above steps please create a new topic and add the following relevant information

i set it up the same minus lxde and tested, didn't seem to have a problem then I added lxde and shortly after started having problems. I backed the sdcard up before installing lxde and used that and it began working again. For about an hour of testing, no issues. i used: sudo apt-get install lxde-core xserver-xorg xinit

as it was the only one i could get to load. I would like a gui on my rpi, so a working method or a substitution gui would be appreciated. I was going to test taking my old tvservice file and moving it but my linux laptop is down so i cant modify the files since they are in use. Thanks.

@trinajst You already have a post open about your problem, please don't post the same question over and over on any topic related, especially on 2 year old ones.

@BuZz Thanks for the help. I will Test some new psu and a fresh Image.
Hopefully it works. Will get in touch with News.
It would be annoying, if the rpi is broken..

@pjft I ended up doing a complete reinstall of everything. It never did happen after that. I originally cut down on the number of systems I used so that might have helped, but once I scraped everything I tried to not go into that menu anymore lol. But with all the new improvements and no more white screen of death I assume it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

I cherry-picked the fix into our lr-ppsspp fork so if you re-install that from binary/source it should also run without the pauses (tested working here)