@mitu I might have by accident because at on point I was having a hard time finding where to pair with bluetooth for a controller

@SgtJimmyRustles said in Usbromservice changed all the rom folders to root permissions:

Errors when I try a sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi

chown: changing ownership of '/home/pi/RetroPie': Operation not permitted

Just a little explanation for this: FAT32 (vfat in Linux) is a Windows file system that doesn't support Linux file permissions and ownerships. Those are determined by the mount options (here: uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022) and are immutable by commands like chmod or chown. Thus, the above error message ist normal behaviour for a vfat mount.

@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.

@herb_fargus Yes , thank-you. Sometimes i try to describe or identify something in an easier way to achieve results . Command line (sudo) is a difficult thing to understand if you're not familiar with it.

@carlhungus74
Got it thanks :)

just FYI, aspect_ratio_index = "23" isn't 'custom viewport' anymore. i think it's 24 now.

it seems like this config change would be the same as just setting 'integer scaling' for GBA to on via https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

@mikepd213 Re-install all your packages, do an update, then try again. You probably messed up the permissions (executable bit) on your files.

Have a look at this:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12836/guide-how-to-n64-controller-setup-with-micro-s-n64-pcb-converter-and-mayflash-usb-adapter

Sorry to waste your time. Found the solution.

sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs

Ok, I will allow ssh access. Thank you again for your help.

@isrnick said in Emulationstation crashes after RetroPie boots up - Permission denied:

@mitu But the keyboard is disabled when it crashes, so you can't type the commands to even open raspi-config to be able to enable SSH.

Sometimes, I can free the keyboard by pressing Alt+PrtScr/SysRq+R simultaneously. It's a Linux Magic SysRq key combination that switches the keyboard from raw mode, which graphical programs tend to use, to XLATE mode. May be worth a try.

Note that on some keyboards, Laptops etc. the key combination is slightly different. See the link above for the variations.

@itsnitro
Ok I will reset my box then try the line of code into built in file manager, then try putting the roms on again

@sonicsheppard You can remove the noexec flag by editing /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf and removing the noexec parameter. Save and reboot.

I entered configs. It worked. But now what? It left a blank line? I thought it would bring up a list of owner permission to edit? Im lost? can anyone walk me through this?