Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation

aaronouthier

Is there a way to communicate privately?
I am inclined to let you in via ssh access if you think it would help and you have the time. Might be a bit more efficient than "playing telephone" - telling me what to type and then posting the output.

mitu

@aaronouthier That's not going to happen, I'm not providing 'private' support. I also don't own an Odroid SBC so if the issue is something that's specific to it I won't be able to test any solutions.

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

gdb run with --core arg pointing to correct core dump file:

Hm, unfortunately the there's no further indication of why it SDL2 crashes - what part of the ES code was calling SDL and what call was made.

My advice right now would be to use the 'native' SDL version of the OS and try compiling EmulationStation with it. Modify /opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg and make sure it has a line with own_sdl2 = "0".

Re-install the libsdl2-dev and libsdl2-2.0-0 packages with their version from the Ubuntu repositories and then re-compile EmulationStation. Make sure your user is in the input, video and render groups and try to start EmulationStation. If that doesn't work, then use a minimal desktop environment to run the front-end.

aaronouthier

@mitu said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

Re-install the libsdl2-dev and libsdl2-2.0-0 packages with their version from the Ubuntu repositories and then re-compile EmulationStation. Make sure your user is in the input, video and render groups and try to start EmulationStation. If that doesn't work, then use a minimal desktop environment to run the front-end.

User is only in the input and video groups. No render listed with the groups command.

Just added that group and restarted the system. ES still crashes. I will troubleshoot again in the morning. G'night.

aaronouthier

Would compiling ES with debugging symbols embedded help? If so, how would I make sure those are enabled?

I am free now, so going to try your most recent suggestion.

aaronouthier

There is no retropie.cfg file in that location. I opened RetroArch.cfg, but couldn't find the string in question.

I have removed all Retropie packages, and am recompiling now to see if I missed something.

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

There is no retropie.cfg file in that location.

You can create the file and add own_sdl2=0 in it, so RetroPie-Setup will use the distro's SDL packages instead of trying to build its own.