Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

Hi, this also happens to me. No problems with Pi 3B+, but I just got a new Pi Zero W, and freezes all the time with RetroPie.

I've tried this versions:

Retropie 4.5.1 -> when it freezes I stil can do F5 in Web Manager and see the temperature, or sometines reboot with Putty if I already had one session opened. And one of those times, Putty threw this when it froze:

pi@retropie:~ $ Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.163849] Internal error: Oops: 837 [#1] ARM Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.167201] Process emulationstatio (pid: 681, stack limit = 0xcebb6188) Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.167355] Stack: (0xcebb7fa8 to 0xcebb8000) Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.167463] 7fa0: be82d520 00000001 be82d520 00000001 00000000 00000003 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.167653] 7fc0: be82d520 00000001 00000004 000000a8 00000000 00000000 00000005 00000000 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.167844] 7fe0: 00000000 be82d518 00000000 b66ea124 80000010 be82d520 00000000 00000000 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 23 16:22:05 ... kernel:[ 1835.168038] Code: f10c0080 e5992008 e35204bf 1b000de1 (e5991000)

RetroPie 4.5 -> Also freezes randomly.

RetroPie 4.4 -> Also freezes, but exits EmulationStation and shows "Segmentation Fault". I have and screenshot if you need it.
And Putty threw this:

pi@retropie:~ $ Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.770533] Internal error: Oops: 805 [#1] ARM Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.773455] Process emulationstatio (pid: 444, stack limit = 0xc0e68188) Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.773619] Stack: (0xc0e69e48 to 0xc0e6a000) Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.773741] 9e40: 00000010 00000000 00000020 00000030 00000030 00000020 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.773942] 9e60: 00000200 c0e69e8c c0e69edc c0e69e78 bf078ba0 c015a1e4 cd592b60 c0e69ea0 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.774148] 9e80: c1eaec00 0000b00a 00000001 be9481d8 c0e69ea8 00000000 00000000 00000ff0 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.774353] 9ea0: 020a4371 00000ff0 c13b8de0 cd5dc660 c0e69eec c0e69ec0 c004c3a0 c0623aec Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.774556] 9ec0: c004c99c c0040a14 00000000 c13b8de0 00000001 cea06f00 c0e69f1c c0e69ee8 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.774755] 9ee0: c0046b2c be9481b4 cf2edd88 c9627320 00000004 00000004 c0e68000 00000000 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.774956] 9f00: c0e69f7c c0e69f10 c016c824 c05025c4 c0e69f74 c0e69f20 c063068c c0046adc Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.775156] 9f20: c0e69f44 c006fae0 c0e69f6c c0e69f38 3cbc4f68 c01773f8 cb6ef900 b5feb564 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.775358] 9f40: be9481b4 be9481d8 400cc404 00000004 c0e69f6c c9627321 be9481b4 c9627320 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.775562] 9f60: 400cc404 00000004 c0e68000 00000000 c0e69fa4 c0e69f80 c016cf20 c016c794 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.775762] 9f80: 0000b00a b5feb564 be9481b4 be9481d8 00000036 c000ffa4 00000000 c0e69fa8 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.775963] 9fa0: c000fe00 c016cee8 b5feb564 be9481b4 00000004 400cc404 be9481b4 0000b00a Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.776164] 9fc0: b5feb564 be9481b4 be9481d8 00000036 00000000 be948374 003be5cc 02164608 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.776365] 9fe0: b5feb240 be9481a4 b5fd8c08 b66ef80c 80000010 00000004 00000000 00000000 Message from syslogd@retropie at Aug 24 00:24:08 ... kernel:[ 812.777184] Code: e51f1528 e24b207c ebffea8d e1a09000 (eafffc25)

RetroPie 4.3 -> Also freezes

NOOBS_v2_8_2 -> Raspbian Ok, update everything..., until I install RetroPie manually, then it freezes right away!

I have to try Recalbox...

@Danny5249 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

Resolved it by configuring retropie to boot to the command line and then i'll edit .bashrc to house the if logic to launch X or ES depending on TOD and of course

if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ]

Was much easier than I was trying to make it...

##### # Set the hours between which PiClock will Launch #### minHour=6 maxHour=9 #Get Current Hour cHour=$(date +%H) # Get current time and time of boot. # calculate minutes since boot cSec=$(date +%s) sSec=$(date +%s -d "$(uptime -s)") uMin=$(( ($cSec - $sSec)/60 )) # Ensure that we are within 2 minutes of boot. This ensures that user can exit ES to the command line # without this script re-launching ES in an endless loop if [[ $uMin -le 2 ]]; then # Ensure this is tty1 if [[ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ]]; then # If between min and max hour then startx and PiClock else execute autorun if [[ $cHour -ge $minHour && $cHour -lt $maxHour ]]; then startx else bash "/opt/retropie/configs/all/autorun.sh" fi fi fi

The issue I see is trying to drop to the command line from ES in which case I believe it will just launch back into ES... i'm ok with this. Maybe some other unintended consequences but I'll find out soon enough.

Edit: Added an additional If statement to check for minutes since boot so that one can successfully drop from ES to the CL without

Hi.

Tried both MAME emu and Cannonball.

Will get the lowdown on all the details for you and let you know..

@mitu That field disappears when I use Safari on my IPAD in this forum. I just switched to a different browser.

@Cricket628 always a good idea to familiarize yourself with the rules of a new forum.

But now you know, and knowing is half the battle. You need help with anything else feel free to ask.

I've saw a method to make a Linux Virtual Machine and try to reduce the filesysystem as shown in this video:

I'm going to give it a try today, couldn't get any luck with 7Zip as I'm trying to write it onto a new card.

@xreser Please post more info about your set-up, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What theme are you using ? Can you post a fragment of your gamelist.xml file with chinese characters ?

user@host$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
https://freeaccountsonline.com/
2: Apple_CoreStorage Mac HD 499.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Mac HD +499.0 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
3BAC0F9E-19F8-4AAB-8752-6514B573B497
Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk2
1: Windows_FAT_16 boot 59.8 MB disk2s1
2: Linux 15.9 GB disk2s2
user@host$

@cyperghost The output of my raspi-gpio get 3 was "level=0 fsel=0 func=INPUT", but if I put it in line 322 the Pi always turns off as soon as emulationstation loads, even if completely disconnected from the case.

However, I just realised something... the power socket on the MEGAPi case it's not just a cutout, like the HDMI port, but it has its own little board, I didn't notice until now, I just mindlessly plugged the power directly to the Pi, and that was the problem, the multi_switch.sh now works perfectly. Sorry for wasting your time :( (however, the fact that multiswitch086.sh almost worked without using the power board was in itself impressive).

As a partial way to make amends I'll correct an error on the installation instructions of the script:

Here you have to add a sudo before chmod, otherwise it gives you "permission denied"

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/ES-generic-shutdown/master/multi_switch.sh && chmod +x multi_switch.sh

Okay...Thanks.

@mitu thanks for the input. I will order the 710 from amazon. You have been most helpful, and I appreciate your patience.

@rodney007xx said in Help for new user please, retro pie issues on 3b+:

@simpleethat > My friend said that his interface of retro PI looked nicer, perhps its because he is using a pre-made image with a different skin?

You can install many so-called "themes" for Retropie. See the Docs about how to install them, and for a list of many (all?) of the themes with screenshots.

Welcome to the Retropie community. Have fun. :)

@saccublenda @mitu Hold on there is a solution

it has to be a bravia

@mitu i see... t y anyways

@granderjoree just for future reference you need to remove the # before the line in the config file in order for it to be read. # means ignore this line. That's why permit root login was not working for you.