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    RetroArch stuck on update at “^[[C” recurring

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      roadhog
      last edited by roadhog

      Hi. I’m new to the forum, I’ve done my best to look around for this but I cannot find anything relating to the code I’m seeing.

      I’m running a Pi4 with retropie 4 installed directly from the retropie website

      The system has been updating for about 13 hours so far, and about 8 of those hours has been the following screen. It was on the first line of “^[[C and this morning it’s still trying 196A0336-92CB-489E-B2EB-34E1DAFDBA64.jpeg

      All I was trying to do was update retroarch as some of the emulators weren’t seeming to work as well anymore. Has it crashed? And can I / should I switch it off? What could the repercussions be?

      Many thanks for your anticipated help / advice :)

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        dankcushions Global Moderator @roadhog
        last edited by dankcushions

        @roadhog you are installing standalone mame it looks like. it’s usual for it to take nearly a day. is the screen scrolling (eventually - it may spend several minutes on the same line)?

        if you selected “install all experimental packages” you may be waiting for several days on a largely pointless exercise. none of these emulators are installed by default and they will be largely unsuitable for use anyway. hit ctrl+c to cancel.

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          roadhog @dankcushions
          last edited by

          @dankcushions hi. Thank you so much for the info. Really helpful. I think the mistake I made was, I went to RetroPie setup, and clicked update all installed packages. I then got a 2nd prompt about updating under laying cores or something? Which I also thought why not, and clicked ok.. here we still are. And yes it is moving along, extremely slowely but still doing that same few lines of ^[[D or ^[[C etc

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            dankcushions Global Moderator @roadhog
            last edited by

            @roadhog i believe the ^[[D or ^[[C spam occurs when you press controller buttons/keyboard whilst I compile is in progress. it's harmless but i would just leave the system well alone, unless you want to cancel (then ctrl+c).

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