White and grey screen when opening emulationstation

[bmjohnsn]

Hello!
I have been struggling to fix this one:

Short Description: After installing RetroPie 4.7.11 on Rasbian Buster, launching emulationstation only shows a white screen with a grey box in the top right.

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 4B 4GB Model
Power Supply used: Geekworm DC 5V 4A
RetroPie Version Used: 4.7.11
Built From: Installed standalone on Rasbian Buster Lite 32bit
Error messages received: White and Grey screen on starting Emulationstation
Guide used: Before I realized that it was outdated, I used this guide to install emulationstation, this is where the issue started. I tried to install retropie on top of this, by using this guide.

When I encountered the same issue, I uninstalled everything using the retropie_setup.sh script. I then deleted /etc/emulationstation/, and the folders I extracted everything to.

I then tried to re-follow the manual installation guide mentioned above. But I am still getting the same issue.

Can you please let me know which logs you need? I will be happy to provide any additional information you need to assist me.

Brandon

[mitu]

Are you using the EmulationStation that's installed by RetroPie or you compiled your own version ? Can you post the contents of the log file, from $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

[bmjohnsn]

@mitu
Thank you for your reply!

Below is the output from $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt

lvl2:   EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar  4 2021 - 19:57:50
lvl2:   Creating surface...
lvl2:   Created window successfully.
lvl2:   Checking available OpenGL extensions...
lvl2:    ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: ok
lvl2:   Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg...
lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/root/.emulationstation/gamelists/amstradcpc/gamelist.xml"...
lvl1:   System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
...
More folders without roms
...
lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/root/.emulationstation/gamelists/zxspectrum/gamelist.xml"...
lvl1:   System "zxspectrum" has no games! Ignoring it.
lvl2:   EmulationStation cleanly shutting down.

I am installing the version from the RetroPie setup. I have tried both the install from binaries, and install from source options.

[mitu]

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

[bmjohnsn]

@mitu said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

You are right. When I run EmulationStation from the /usr/bin folder, it runs correctly.

That poses another question... When I call 'emulationstation' in the terminal, how can I get it to point to the right script?

[bmjohnsn]

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@mitu said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

You are right. When I run EmulationStation from the /usr/bin folder, it runs correctly.

That poses another question... When I call 'emulationstation' in the terminal, how can I get it to point to the right script?

Actually, I found the version that was running incorrectly in /usr/local/bin.

Upon deleting emulationstation from this folder, all works well.

Thank you for your help!