Manually edit Retroarch configurations not working in setup menu

xjestersdeadx

Hi! I need help. I must have done something wrong because inside the retropie setup menu, when I select Manually edit Retroarch configurations or ANY of the "Manually edit" menu options, it just pauses for a second and then comes back to the menu at the top.

Any thoughts on what I did? :) I have retropie running on Ubuntu.
Thanks if you have had this happen and know the answer!

-Jester

xjestersdeadx

@xjestersdeadx By the way, I have also reinstalled setup and redid the basic install and core packages, and updated everything. Trying to figure out what on Earth I did that screwed this up.

mitu

The RetroPie-Setup actions are logged in $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, try opening one of the recent logs and see if any error pops-up.
If you run the setup script from a separate terminal, does editing work ? You can start the setup script by running

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

xjestersdeadx

@mitu Thanks I will look at the logs. I am running it from a terminal, yes.

xjestersdeadx

Okay, here is the errors in the log:

Running action 'gui' for 'configedit' : Edit RetroPie/RetroArch configurations
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/home/matt/Desktop/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/configedit.sh: line 344: /home/matt/Desktop/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/configedit.sh: line 342: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/home/matt/Desktop/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/configedit.sh: line 342: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long")
/home/matt/Desktop/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/helpers.sh: line 133: /opt/retropie/configs/: Is a directory

mitu

Looks like an error from here.
Can you show a screenshot of the listing before the editing, where you have the list of configuration files to edit ?

jtron9k

@xjestersdeadx getting the same error. Did you manage to fix?

jtron9k

@mitu

I had this same error and I have a pretty good feeling it is due to a bezel project install.

Everything seems to be working fine, so I don’t know how much I really care… I can still edit the raw config file if I have to.

mitu

@jtron9k said in Manually edit Retroarch configurations not working in setup menu:

I have a pretty good feeling it is due to a bezel project install.

That might be the cause and it's worth investigating. For which systems did you install the bezels ?