Mausberry Shutdown Script Doesn't Save Metadata

cyperghost

@lostless Is the sleeptimer of 9 seconds not to long?
I took the value out of the python script (they used 10 seconds) but I assume it was written for an Pi 1. So I think 5-6 seconds should also work.

No .. it's not obsession it's passion!
But I'm also interested in the inotify thing

lostless

@cyperghost I can experiment, 9 seems good enough. i can try lower, but as long as it shuts down, it doesn't matter much.

cyperghost

@lostless The 9 seconds are only triggered if an emulator is running! And it's important for saving metadata after the emu is closed.

lostless

@cyperghost said in Mausberry Shutdown Script Doesn't Save Metadata:

No .. it's not obsession it's passion!

Is there a difference. Its all a matter of perspective LOL

lostless

@cyperghost said in Mausberry Shutdown Script Doesn't Save Metadata:

@lostless The 9 seconds are only triggered if an emulator is running! And it's important for saving metadata after the emu is closed.

Ya, its fine as i usually don't shut down from a game, so in that respect, having to wait will hardly be noticed.

cyperghost

@lostless If you are obsessed by a woman or passionated by a women makes a big difference.
If you don't know then ask a judge and a producer of love toys what the difference is :)

lostless

@cyperghost getting all philosophical on me? Lets not derail to far, but i think i clearly under stand the difference between obsession and passion. Obsession is passion gone too far, when there is no need to keep going. When all is lost, yet you continue. When the path has reached its end and you gone over the cliff. I think I'm done.................. :/

cyperghost

@lostless You're right. You may help us in outfinding the best sleeptimer :) That's your passion :) you can also use floating number like 2.5 to pause

hansolo77

You guys are awesome. I haven't tried 1.5b (adding proper exit out of the loop) on my own system yet, but it sounds like you got it working. I hate not being home today to participate more. :) Thanks everybody! When I get a chance, I will put it into place and report back my own findings.

meleu

@cyperghost

bug report

Our method to kill the command placed on the 4th line of /dev/shm/runcommand.info fails to kill ScummVM emulator. This is why:

[prompt]$ sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info
bash /home/meleu/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start\ ScummVM.sh "ft"

Then our approach kills bash processes.

I'm currently trying to find a strong solution. Will post it soon...

meleu

@hansolo77 @lostless @cyperghost

Can you guys test this one? Let's call it v1.7:

#!/bin/bash -x
# Before using this script you need to install inotify-tools:
#
#    sudo apt-get install inotify-tools
#
# I'm just trying to help with the script logic here.
# I DON'T HAVE A MAUSBERRY AND DIDN'T TEST THE GPIO STUFF HERE!
#
#########################################################
#  U S E   I T   A T   Y O U R   O W N   R I S K ! ! !  #
#########################################################
#
# meleu - July/2017
# kudos for @cyperghost , who is very persistent in help you guys! :-)

#this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled OUT
GPIOpin1=23

#this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled IN
GPIOpin2=24

echo "$GPIOpin1" > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo "in" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/direction
echo "$GPIOpin2" > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/direction
echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/value

file="/sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/value"

# up to here this code is executed at booting (/etc/rc.local)
# let's wait for the creation of the "/sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/value"
sleep 30 # not sure if 30 seconds is a good value...

while inotifywait -qq -e modify "$file" ; do
    power="$(cat "$file")"
    [[ "$power" == 0 ]] && continue

    # explaining the crazy command below:
    # 1. get 4th line of runcommand.info (aka "emulator command")
    # 2. delete backslash '\' character
    # 3. replace every character that has a special meaning in a regex context with a dot '.'
    emu_command="$(sed -n 4p /dev/shm/runcommand.info | tr -d '\\"' | tr '^$[]*.()|+?{}' '.')"
    [[ -n "$emu_command" ]] && pkill -f "$emu_command" && sleep 10

    espid=$(pgrep -f "/opt/retropie/supplementary/.*/emulationstation([^.]|$)")
    if [[ "$espid" ]]; then
        touch /tmp/es-shutdown && chown pi:pi /tmp/es-shutdown
        kill "$espid"
        exit
    fi

    sudo poweroff
done

I did a trick for debugging, then if this script doesn't work, please perform this command:

grep 'rc\.local' /var/log/syslog > debug.log

It creates a file named debug.log paste its conten in ghostbin.com or something similar.

lostless

@meleu still did not work. I did the grep thing and can't find the syslog directory to find debug.log. also i don't have the /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1 directory. not sure if thats useful, but trying to help.

meleu

@lostless please, paste here the output of these commands:

ls -l /var/log/syslog

and

ls -lah /sys/class/gpio/*

lostless

first

-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2281836 Jul 29 03:38 /var/log/syslog

second

-rwxrwx--- 1 root gpio 4.0K Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/export
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root gpio    0 Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/gpio23 -> ../../devices/platform/soc/3f200000.gpio/gpiochip0/gpio/gpio23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root gpio    0 Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/gpio24 -> ../../devices/platform/soc/3f200000.gpio/gpiochip0/gpio/gpio24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root gpio    0 Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip0 -> ../../devices/platform/soc/3f200000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root gpio    0 Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip100 -> ../../devices/gpiochip2/gpio/gpiochip100
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root gpio    0 Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip128 -> ../../devices/gpiochip1/gpio/gpiochip128
-rwxrwx--- 1 root gpio 4.0K Jul 29 02:50 /sys/class/gpio/unexport

meleu

@lostless

now these:

cd
grep rc.local /var/log/syslog* > debug.log
ls -l debug.log

lostless

-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16656 Jul 29 03:44 debug.log

i found a debug.log in the home (~) directory

meleu

@lostless open this file on your Windows (I'm assuming you're using Windows), select all text and paste on ghostbin.com

lostless

@meleu nope mac. I can boot into windows if need be.

meleu

@lostless nop, I just need you to copy the entire file

lostless

@meleu
its just

/var/log/syslog:Jul 23 06:28:29 genepi systemd[1]: Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility...
/var/log/syslog:Jul 23 06:28:29 genepi systemd[1]: Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility.

over and over with different dates and times. nothing else.