RetroPie forum home
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Home
    • Docs
    • Register
    • Login
    Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

    EmulationStation crashes when switching video input

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Help and Support
    emulation sta
    3 Posts 1 Posters 338 Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • H
      haymak3r
      last edited by

      Greetings. While not a huge deal, I would like to see if this can get resolved. Everything works great when using retropie, but when we are finished, we switch our hdmi input from the VM where retropie runs over to say our nvidia shield. If we switch right back, everything will be fine. But usually it will be another day or so before we play it again. When we switch video inputs back to the VM, the screen says Emulation Station Crashed! There is no keyboard or mouse hooked up to this, so I just go in and restart the VM. Then everything works just fine.

      My setup:
      Host is Unraid which has a discrete videocard in it.
      Virtual machine has the vid card passed to it and is running ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
      Retropie and ubuntu are up to date.

      I am honestly not sure if this issue is from the host/video card not liking the input change, and that is then crashing emulation station? Or if ES doesn't like seeing a video signal? But I am willing to try anything somebody suggests. I just am not sure where to really start. Logs don't really say anything that I've found, in that usually the last line is just from when we turn the controllers on(looking at the .bak file) and then of course after restarting, the normal log looks completely normal.

      Any help is greatly appreciated!!

      Sincerely,
      Chris

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • H
        haymak3r
        last edited by

        :( Darn, I was really hoping that this was something easy to resolve, or somebody has seen this before. Did I stump everybody?

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • H
          haymak3r
          last edited by

          Bump? Did I post this in the wrong place?

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • First post
            Last post

          Contributions to the project are always appreciated, so if you would like to support us with a donation you can do so here.

          Hosting provided by Mythic-Beasts. See the Hosting Information page for more information.