[SOLVED] EmulationStation crash after turning off DS4/PS4 controller

Panja

Since one of the latest releases of RetroPie I'm having problems with my DualShock 4 controllers. When I turn them off, EmulationStation crashes.

How to reproduce:

Start machine
Turn on DualShock 4 controller and let it connect
Start a game through RetroArch or any other emulator (Redream for instance)
Exit game
Turn off controller (10 sec press on the PS button)

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This only occurs after running a game.
If I start the machine, turn controller on and turn it off (without starting a game) there is no crash.
Of course I've ran the ResetRomDirs command and also changed back to the Carbon theme.

Setup:
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.18.0-25-generic x86_64)
RetroPie v4.5 - commit 35555bc (had this problem on RP v4.4.16 as well)
Machine: Intel NUC7i5BNK
Processor: i5 7260U
Ram: 8GB
GFX: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
Controller: 2x official Playstation DualShock 4 connected through Bluetooth

mitu

Looks like this bug, triggered by a the new SDL version. What's your SDL version ? You can find out by running

 dpkg -l | grep libsdl2-2.0.0

Panja

@mitu

Do you ever sleep? ;-)
Thanks for replying!

SDL:

ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64                   2.0.9+1                                     amd64        Simple DirectMedia Layer

mitu

This is not the distro provided SDL, otherwise I'm thinking you should have hit this bug before. Ubuntu 18.04 comes with SDL 2.0.8 - did you upgrade it manually to 2.0.9 ?
On my Ubuntu updated system, the output of the command is

 dpkg -l | grep libsdl2-2.0.0
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64                        2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3                 amd64        Simple DirectMedia Layer

Panja

I had to change SDL version when I tried the PS2 (PCSX2) emulator.
~~After that I ran the ./retropie_packages.sh sdl command.~~
After that I ran the ./retropie_packages.sh sdl2 command.
That's probably why I'm running a different version?

Would downgrading be a fix/workaround?

mitu

After that I ran the ./retropie_packages.sh sdl command.

That will install the sdl1 packages, not the sdl2 packages. Reinstall you distro packages and try again.

Panja

Sorry, I meant ./retropie_packages.sh sdl2
I've not installed sdl 1 (forgot to type the 2).

@mitu said in EmulationStation crash after turning off DS4/PS4 controller:

Reinstall you distro packages and try again.

Could you please elaborate how?

mitu

@Panja said in EmulationStation crash after turning off DS4/PS4 controller:

Could you please elaborate how?

Try

sudo apt install --reinstall libsdl2-2.0.0

Panja

@mitu

Note, selecting 'libsdl2-2.0-0' for regex 'libsdl2-2.0.0'
Reinstallation of libsdl2-2.0-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.

mitu

@Panja Do you have any custom repositories added ? Run an apt-get update before trying the re-install.

Panja

@mitu
I have the following repo's added:
ubuntu-x-swat
ubuntu Universe

Apt update has been run of course.

mitu

@Panja Then there's a problem with one of your extra repositories - leave just the Ubuntu ones, update and re-try.

Panja

@mitu

I have disabled both the repo's but still cannot re-install SDL.

mitu

@Panja Can you install any other package ? What's the output of:

 apt-cache policy libsdl2-2.0-0

Panja

@mitu

Yes, installing other packages is no problem.

libsdl2-2.0-0:
  Installed: 2.0.9+1
  Candidate: 2.0.9+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.9+1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages

mitu

@Panja Try

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl2-2.0-0=2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3

or download the package directly and install it with dpkg -i <pkg.deb>.

Panja

@mitu

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libsdl2-dev : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (= 2.0.9+1) but 2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

mitu

@Panja Remove the -dev package, you can install it later on from the repository.

Panja

@mitu

sudo apt remove libsdl2-dev
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl2-2.0-0=2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev

I now have:

ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64                   2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.3                amd64        Simple DirectMedia Layer

Gonna have a try with the controllers later on, when I'm actually at the machine itself.
Will report back!

Panja

@mitu

I can confirm: downgrading SDL to v2.0.8 solved my problem!
Thanks for the help, as always. :-)