White and grey screen when opening emulationstation
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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Guide used: Before I realized that it was outdated, I used this guide to install emulationstation, this is where the issue started.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
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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
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@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.
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@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 anemulationstation
script is copied in/usr/bin
. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary. -
@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 anemulationstation
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?
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@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 anemulationstation
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!
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