Ok thank you it works.

@CapNinja I suggest it can be the timer that leads to such behaviour. After 3s of waiting if the PID is active then a kill term 9 is send to process. That leads to a process abort. You can try to extend the time by changing the sleep command or by changing the number counter. I get some obscure errors if a process was terminated with siglevel 9. No I don't think it has something to do with the script. Sounds like problem with data access from KODI. Suddenly is a kind of magic, too. You wrote you use a pendrive, which can lead to problem 2 - writing cache for KODI. KODI responds sometimes slow on pendrives esp. with ntfs format Unrelated to script. All in all I think you might get some problems with the powering and the pendrive. To be sure I would extent the sleep timer from 0.1 to 0.25 be aware that a not closing process needs now 30x0.25s time ~ 8s to be forced closed now. Maybe you can give feedback to this later ;) @Efriim retropie-setup dialogs can't be closed. As long as the call was initiated by runcommand shell script then every script or binary can be closed. If the runcommand call is missing then there is no pathway for the close switch.

Found in an old post. Solution for others, Settings > Player > Videos > Playback > Adjust display refresh rate > On start / stop

@Halvhjearne said in retropie on ubuntu 18.10 is adding unnecessary/broken apt sources: there is a package available upstream for both cosmic and bionic, would it be possible to maybe fix the script to not add the broken repo for cosmic? The repo is mainained by the FS-UAE author and it's the recommended way to install it (https://fs-uae.net/download#ubuntu). If anything changes regarding that, we can also update the script. While for 18.x the latest package is upstreamed (Ubuntu), for older releases the PPA has the latest version. Let's see what happens when 19.04 breaks loose.

Bump. Ran into this minor problem as well

I hope this works for you @TwoShedsWilson I might see if I can work it into one of my builds for fun

@jakejm79 Cool thanks for the speedy response. Suppose I'll just give it a try over the Xmas period. Don't suppose you know how to get the kodi main menu to show that comes with @lipebello retrorama theme do you. Thanks Rob

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

@VictimRLSH not really enough CPU power, but it has enough GPU power - http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ then Kodi can play back DVD with hardware acceleration.

(hmm…) I could've sworn that the 'enable' option was grayed out the last time I tried that.

@arif Please don't post links to dodgy Kodi add-ons, it's agains the forum rules. For any detailed Kodi usage, as @rbaker said, use the Kodi forum. Thank you.

@adams 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

@psyke83 I don't have any "Sony joysticks" to test at the moment, I don't know about that. But I saw your issue in Kodi github, Garbear is the guy to help you I think.

@time-bandit said in Help with setting up my first rp 3b+: With or without vibration isn't a big thing for me. If it works great if not no biggie im more interested in replaying some of the old classics. We've seen reports where the controller would not start vibrating because it's not properly recognized by the OS, event if it works. I think you should consider another controller, but hey !, it's your money.

@tuta1986 To configure a bluetooth keyboard, try to use the Bluetooth menu in the RetroPie menu to pair the keyboard (https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Bluetooth-Controller/). It's meant to be used for adding a BT gamepad, but it might work for your keyboard.

@mediamogul said in Restore retropie-Kodi manually backup?: userdata I'll give it a try and see what happens. But right now i'm having trouble with virtual box for using linux doesnt want to see my sd card to micro sd, I tried micro sd to usb. Virtualbox is very picky, it wants extra payment license for usb 2 n 3.0. very awkward situation. Update, everything is mostly good. Dam its hard for me to setup ps3 controllers on retropie, it was easier on Jessie. I hope I don't mess up the controller pairing. Now I can backup one last time for safety, feels great. Last thing to do Mame delete some roms, and figure out roms sets editior, I know its documented here. I haven't done the games, but that should be really easy to do next.