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    Emulation Station Crashing on Pi Zero

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    • pjftP
      pjft @onesojourner
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      @onesojourner what theme are you using? And when you mean that you need to select in a few minutes, does it mean that if you don't do anything and it goes to a screensaver, it'll also crash?

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        onesojourner @BuZz
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        @BuZz

        I do have another psu I can try. I would think a bad psu would show itself in game though.

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          onesojourner @pjft
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          @pjft said in Emulation Station Crashing on Pi Zero:

          @onesojourner what theme are you using? And when you mean that you need to select in a few minutes, does it mean that if you don't do anything and it goes to a screensaver, it'll also crash?

          I have used both the carbon theme and there is a theme on sudomod that works better for small screens. The name escapes me at the moment. Both crash the same though.

          If I don't select a game quickly then ES will crash. I do not see a screen saver. The screen just freezes and I cannot do anything.

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          • pjftP
            pjft @onesojourner
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            @onesojourner could you try increasing the screensaver time to a significantly larger value to make sure it's a non factor?

            Does it happen when in the system view? Game list view? Both regardless?

            Are you using videos in your theme?

            If you can access your Pi via SSH when it crashes can you open the .emulationstation/es_log.txt file and share its contents?

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              onesojourner @pjft
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              @pjft said in Emulation Station Crashing on Pi Zero:

              @onesojourner could you try increasing the screensaver time to a significantly larger value to make sure it's a non factor?

              Does it happen when in the system view? Game list view? Both regardless?

              Are you using videos in your theme?

              If you can access your Pi via SSH when it crashes can you open the .emulationstation/es_log.txt file and share its contents?

              From what I can tell this happens in all views. I am not using any videos. This will crash on a completely vanilla retropie 4.2 build.

              I just got ssh enabled last night so I will try to get those logs and get them posted later tonight.

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              • pjftP
                pjft @onesojourner
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                @onesojourner thanks. I suppose I was trying to cross out the screensaver as being a potential factor - though I don't see why it would. If you can increase the screensaver interval, see if it changes anything.

                Also, if you have a keyboard connected to it, when it crashes can you exit emulationstation by pressing F4?

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                  onesojourner @DarkWolf
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                  @DarkWolf said in Emulation Station Crashing on Pi Zero:

                  @onesojourner

                  Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant):Is this relevant?

                  That would be usefull

                  This folder is empty.

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                    onesojourner @pjft
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                    @pjft said in Emulation Station Crashing on Pi Zero:

                    @onesojourner

                    If you can access your Pi via SSH when it crashes can you open the .emulationstation/es_log.txt file and share its contents?
                    I popped out my sd card and just pulled this file.

                    lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.1.5rp, built Mar 19 2017 - 18:15:20
                    lvl2: Creating surface...
                    lvl2: Created window successfully.
                    lvl2: Added known joystick Arduino LLC Arduino Leonardo (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
                    lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions...
                    lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
                    lvl2: Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg...
                    lvl1: System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "arcade" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "atari2600" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "atari7800" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "atarilynx" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "fba" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: Unknown platform for system "fds" (platform "fds" from list "fds")
                    lvl1: System "fds" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "gamegear" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gb/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gba/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gbc/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl1: System "mame-libretro" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "mame-mame4all" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "mastersystem" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/megadrive/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl1: System "n64" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "neogeo" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl1: System "ngp" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "ngpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "pcengine" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "psx" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl1: System "sega32x" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "segacd" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: Unknown platform for system "sg-1000" (platform "sg-1000" from list "sg-1000")
                    lvl1: System "sg-1000" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml"...
                    lvl1: Unknown platform for system "vectrex" (platform "vectrex" from list "vectrex")
                    lvl1: System "vectrex" has no games! Ignoring it.
                    lvl1: System "zxspectrum" has no games! Ignoring it.

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                    • DarkWolfD
                      DarkWolf @onesojourner
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                      @onesojourner that looks pretty normal

                      System: Raspberry 3 Model B, RetroPie 4.2.1
                      Storage: 16gb Micro SD, 64gb USB Drive
                      Theme: Updated NBBA

                      Documentation solves many problems: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

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                        tripleblend
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                        Did you happen to resolve the issue? I've been having the same problem and can't seem to get around it.

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