EmulationStation Update broken? Line 21: No such file or directory

timothee

Log started at: Sun 28 May 00:25:28 UTC 2017

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Installing dependencies for 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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Installing 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation /home/pi

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Configuring 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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Running action 'install_theme' for 'esthemes' : Install themes for Emulation Station
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git clone --recursive --depth 1 "https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon.git" "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon"
Cloning into '/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon'...
/home/pi

Log ended at: Sun 28 May 00:25:35 UTC 2017
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 7 secs

timothee

Erm, sorry for the short message @meleu, I was eager to paste that log coz I have the SD card with me and could check it. That was the log for when I ran the "Update from binary" (per my last message).

I have not yet tried to uninstall and reinstall emulationstation. I'll give that a shot later when I'm free.

Also just to reiterate: I have so far got the error 100% of the times on update-all or update-emulationstation only, so I reckon this must be a easily reproducible case.

meleu

@BuZz The log above makes me believe that the emulationstation binary isn't in the right format. Am I right?

xFlesk

same problem here. cant start my pi after update 4.2.3:

"/usr/bin/emulationstation: line 21: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh No such file or directory"

please help. doeas developers know about it ? it is a major issue. do not update your retropie or it crash.

meleu

@xFlesk as a workaround you can install/update from source. But it's very time consuming...

xFlesk

many times i've been updating retropie without a problems, this is first time incident ;) i think something was misstaken during the compilation and developers allready know about it and working to fix that.

yes, install from source take like forever ;) as for now im updating instalation-script with hope to see another update and backuping all my roms, saves, configs, gamelists, downloaded images etc. (just in case ;) )

also:
im very sad about all of this :( my retropie is by far the best console ever and im playing on it every single day ;) developers !! talk to us ;) We suffer here :D

BuZz

@meleu I don't think that's the problem - seems ok here. Network issue could also cause a problem like that - did you test it ?

Everyone should make sure all their system packages are up to date, in case there is some odd case of some format difference due to versions of tar etc.

meleu

@BuZz said in EmulationStation Update broken? Line 21: No such file or directory:

did you test it ?

I was away from my pi when I saw these reports. But I've just got home and tested (Update from binary). And it is indeed working just fine.

xFlesk

i have no internet problems. i've tried to remove emulation station and install it again but the same error occures.

"/usr/bin/emulationstation: line 21: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh No such file or directory"

i start to thinking about install fresh retropie and simply not update but its pointless since i like to have all new and updated. im stuck now.

meleu

@BuZz said in EmulationStation Update broken? Line 21: No such file or directory:

in case there is some odd case of some format difference due to versions of tar etc.

just checking the versions here:

pi@retropie:~ $ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1
...

pi@retropie:~ $ gunzip --version
gunzip (gzip) 1.6
...

@xFlesk @timothee can you guys check those versions on your end?

xFlesk

i've checked. have the same as on your example. im trying now install again from binary.

i noticed new update came out (like 23 minutes ago). we will see if it helps.

edit:
unfortunetly it does not help. still same error.

BuZz

@xFlesk does your ISP have a transparent http cache / proxy?

BuZz

please post the output of

cd
wget http://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/jessie/rpi2/supplementary/emulationstation.tar.gz -Oemulationstation.tar.gz
md5sum emulationstation.tar.gz
ls -la emulationstation.tar.gz
tar xvzf emulationstation.tar.gz
rm -rf emulationstation emulationstation.tar.gz

BuZz

also

uname -a

xFlesk

here is my log after installing emulation station from binary:

Log started at: Sun 28 May 11:38:08 UTC 2017

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Installing dependencies for 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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Installing 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation /home/pi

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Configuring 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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Running action 'install_theme' for 'esthemes' : Install themes for Emulation Station
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git clone --recursive --depth 1 "https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon.git" "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon"
Cloning into '/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon'...
/home/pi

Log ended at: Sun 28 May 11:38:14 UTC 2017
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 6 secs

xFlesk

sorry but i can only take a photo. hope its good

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xFlesk

@BuZz i dont know how to check if my ISP is transparent or not.

BuZz

@xFlesk Please run

cd
sudo __debug=1 ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh emulationstation install_bin 2>log.txt

and send me log.txt from /home/pi (please use pastebin site for the log)

(and post the screen output)

xFlesk

@BuZz here you go

https://pastebin.com/aFr7ZWxv

and here is what appears in terminal:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo __debug=1 ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh emulationstation install_bin 2>log.txt

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Installing 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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pi@retropie:~ $

BuZz

@xFlesk I cannot see any problem with the code the script is running - something is interfering so you are not getting the expected data. However I am unable to reproduce. One more check -

Please run this from terminal

cd
wget http://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/jessie/rpi3/supplementary/emulationstation.tar.gz -Oemulationstation.tar.gz
md5sum emulationstation.tar.gz
ls -la emulationstation.tar.gz
tar xvzf emulationstation.tar.gz
rm -rf emulationstation emulationstation.tar.gz

For whatever reason when the script does wget and pipes to tar to unpack, it's not getting the correct data - do you have somewhere else you could take your rpi to use a different net connection? I will also reboot our server, but it's all working fine here so I don't know what the problem could be.