Ubuntu - After update, emulationstation is gone!

[Gyges_of_Lydia]

+1 something is is broken, i get the same error.

[Sheef]

@Gyges_of_Lydia Problem solved. The uninstall of retropie is not enough, so you have to delete some files before you install it again. search for all files on /opt/.emulationstation and after you remove it, try to reinstall again. It worked for me!

[knewlife]

@Sheef I have the exact same problem, but i have uninstalled retropie and delete everithing from home/.emulationstation and the error is there anyways.

Can you tell me exactly what you do to make it work... ?

[edmaul69]

@knewlife he said /opt/.emulationstation/ not/home/.emulationstation/ Try searching for that.

[jonah]

I've got the same problem here with Ubuntu 17.04...

When you run the retropie_setup script and do a full uninstall there is no /opt/.emulationstation folder at all - it's deleted with the uninstall script.

I then reinstall fresh again, load up EmulationStation and then configure the joystick. Then try go into a system it crashes with that error:

/retropie-setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:129: static UnicodeChar Font::readUnicodeChar(const string&, std::size_t&): Assertion `(c & 0xC0) != 0x80' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

[BuZz]

It's a known issue. No fully tested fix yet.

[BuZz]

@edmaul69 there is no /opt/.emulationstation

[knewlife]

@edmaul69 said in Ubuntu - After update, emulationstation is gone!:

/opt/.emulationstation/

No /opt/.emulationstation/ for me...

I have to compile Emulationstation 2.5.2 and it works fine now.
I create a fork, revert to Emulationstation 2.5.2 and modify the Retropie Setup emulationstation script to point to the new repository https://github.com/knewlife/EmulationStation

[edmaul69]

@buzz ok. Good to know. I dont have ubuntu version so i was just repeating what op said.

[6Ib1aIhTGecsvm1X]

Do others still have this with 4.3? I updated from 4.2.[something] (the version where Emulation Station's splash screen changed to black and Emulation Station gained support for video previews) on an RPi3, but still have this crash. I even rebuilt ES by source through the retropie_setup.sh interface.

I am using the selph scraper to fetch video previews, and as a part of that the "images" folder and the gamelist.xml file are now instde of each of the rom folders instead of under ~/.emulationstation. Has anyone else had this issue with the same situation? I might try nuking all of the scraped info to see if that improves stability.

@BuZz, is there a ticket out on this issue that we can follow?