Solution for " White Screen of Death "
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So having a bit of a play on my Pi3 and I'm running a very image heavy theme and the RPI-4 release has indeed stopped the WSOD, only very very rarely on boot when going from system view into detailed view for the first time will the screen flash white for milliseconds before being populated by the images.
I do get booted out of ES when changing settings in the ES menu which also throws up the following error:
emulationstation: . home/pi/EmulationStation/es-core/src/components/OptionListComponent.h:239: T OptionListComponent<T>: :getSelected() [with T = std:basic_string<char>]: Assertion 'selected.size() == 1' failed.
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@__Scannigan__ said in Solution for " White Screen of Death ":
I do get booted out of ES when changing settings in the ES menu which also throws up the following error:
This usually means there is something in es_settings.cfg that ES doesn't understand. Have you run any other development versions of ES on there? Maybe you could post your es_settings.cfg so we can take a look?
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="false" />
<bool name="DrawFramerate" value="false" />
<bool name="EnableSounds" value="true" />
<bool name="ParseGamelistOnly" value="false" />
<bool name="QuickSystemSelect" value="true" />
<bool name="SaveGamelistsOnExit" value="true" />
<bool name="ScrapeRatings" value="true" />
<bool name="ShowHelpPrompts" value="true" />
<int name="ScraperResizeHeight" value="0" />
<int name="ScraperResizeWidth" value="400" />
<int name="ScreenSaverTime" value="150000" />
<string name="Scraper" value="TheArchive" />
<string name="ScreenSaverBehavior" value="random video" />
<string name="ThemeSet" value="oldroom 720p" />
<string name="TransitionStyle" value="fade" />I've just noticed I don't have the option for random video as screensaver in the ES menu anymore just Dim and Black
I previously ran your v0.2-RPi-beta.2
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@__Scannigan__ said in Solution for " White Screen of Death ":
I've just noticed I don't have the option for random video as screensaver in the ES menu anymore just Dim and Black
That will be it. The WSOD fix version does not include the screensaver. Delete this line in your settings file and it should fix the issue:
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@fieldofcows Ahhh thanks dude, so I have too choose between hi res images and having a screen saver :)
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so I have too choose between hi res images and having a screen saver :)
@__Scannigan__ For now, at least. @fieldofcows is working hard on getting all of those features into the main branch, but we need to make sure they are as well tested as possible before he can submit them for review. @fieldofcows is just a volunteer developer, doing this for fun- it's not his job to support EmulationStation or RetroPie. The current maintainers of the RetroPie version of EmulationStation are @Buzz and @herb_fargus I believe. Since they are also just doing this for fun and not profit, we have to make sure that any changes to the system we give them won't make their lives harder by breaking things :).
TLDR: Patience :). Once all the bugs are worked out (which requires more beta testing from users like you- thanks for helping to test!), it will eventually get into the official builds.
For anyone else who is observing these threads and has been following the work @fieldofcows has been doing, I encourage you to help test his work, that way he can find more bugs and fix them more quickly. He's a magician, but perhaps not quite a miracle worker :).
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@MWGemini Cheers dude, I've pushed this and since added more systems and I can't seem to break it
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I've now tried this on my Raspberry Pi 1. I forgot how slow they are! It took hours to compile then I realised I had used the wrong base image then had to wait again. Anyway...
It works well. Tronky theme loaded with 500Mb of images, maximum set to 100Mb in the UI and no WSOD. Carousel images were all preloaded and worked without delay. System images took a couple of seconds to load if paged out.
With a smaller theme there was no evidence of having to load/unload so no delays.
All seems to be OK :)
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@fieldofcows Fantastic! I've only got a Pi3, so I'm sorry I can't help with testing more than I've been able to so far.
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Ok so it's done. I've submitted the PR. I hope there has been enough testing to shake out any problems but if anyone is willing or able to do a bit more testing then it would really be appreciated.
What I would really like to see is the fixed version being tried on existing configurations to make sure they still work without issue.
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@fieldofcows What's next on the TODO list? And how can I help?
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What's next on the TODO list?
Champagne and cigars ;). Congratulations to everyone involved on seeing this through. This is definitely a milestone achievement and it is much appreciated.
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@MWGemini said in Solution for " White Screen of Death ":
What's next on the TODO list?
Either omxplayer for video, video screensaver or back to metadata. After a beer or two.
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@fieldofcows Happy to help with any of those. I can drop-ship you a case of your favorite as a gesture of appreciation :).
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Now I've got the hang of all this ( really enjoying learning about the back end of it) I'm happy to help if I can
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@MWGemini said in Solution for " White Screen of Death ":
I can drop-ship you a case of your favorite as a gesture of appreciation :).
Haha! Very kind thanks but you might be a bit premature. There seem to be a couple of issues to solve with the WSOD fix.
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@fieldofcows What did I miss?
Edit: Nevermind, found the discussion for it: https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/86
Is there anything I can do to help narrow this one down?
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@MWGemini It's been a busy weekend so I've only just had a chance to look at this. The carbon theme issue wasn't too hard to fix. Hopefully the WSOD fix will be back in soon.
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@fieldofcows Understandable. Same for me, actually. I just saw the PR updates with your new fix. If you get time to put a new release together, I can run through some more tests. I also need to set aside some time to test the video stuff too.
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