kernel panic on boot of retropie
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good morning all. i recently installed a retropie in an arcade cabinet for a friend who knows nothing about computers at all. it was the retropie image of 4.2 from the website loaded with a mame 2003 reference set of 0.78 roms. i sent him home with a copy of the sd card running the games that i made using dd in slackware. i also kept a copy, and when it messed up, he swapped the cards out and when i came over, i swapped them with him and re wrote mine. that was caused on the second day when he hit too many buttons without waiting. fast forward three months and it locked up again, this time the backup wasn't working. he said it just locked up and when he rebooted, it didn't come back on.
the error message was "Kernel panic - not syncing: UPS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)" and that led me to this forum(https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12245). it is from 2013, but looks relevant except it doesn't really explain how all three sd cards went bad at once, when two weren't even in the same geographical location and were not being written to as they were in a drawer. i thought it may be something to do with the graphics on the pi, but when i put in another sd card with raspbian on it, it worked great. it also worked with kalipi when i used one of the defective retropie sd cards, so that rules out (to me at least, unless i am missing something) a bad sd card. i am reinstalliing the os now, but when i built this, it took a while as i compiled it all myself, so am also going to use an image. in looking back, i found that the one i loaded myself was the other one, not the one i sent him with. that was the image from the website.
until i can figure this out, and to help avoid issues in the future, if someone can help me solve this one, i would greatly appreciate it. i am including a picture of the whole error message. have a great day/week.!!
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@sfzombie13 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 (Please provide information about the set-up).
Sounds like bad sd card or filesystem corruption. Could be caused by bad PSU though or something.
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i figured this was enough info for ageneric question of how 3 sd cards could get corrupted at the same time while in different locations, even while not being used. i fixed the issue but am looking for a root cause. i took the pi and all equipment with me to replicate the issue and they all worked with another os, in fact, with 2 different ones, so everything hardware is good. the image was as i stated, 4.2 image for the pi from the retropie site. are there any known issues with this image that would cause corruption while not being used?
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