Scraper crashes ES

rasp_renegade

I dont know how I always mange to break these things, but my scraper is not working. When trying to scrape from ES, it just goes to the CLI as if I hit F4. I imaged two new cards last week and only one has working scraper.

I tried to uninstall/ reinstall scraper and skyscraper. Setupscript is up to date as well as basic install.
What can I do?

Specs
raspberry pi3
Image from here ->https://retropie.org.uk/download/
RP v4.8
ES v2.10.2RP

mitu

I tried to uninstall/ reinstall scraper and skyscraper. Setupscript is up to date as well as basic install.

The internal ES scraper doesn't use scraper or skyscraper, re-installing them will not affect EmulationStation.

Do you have enough space on the system where it's not working ? Run EmulationStation with the --debug parameter from the command line, then post the log on pastebin.com. You can find the log in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

rasp_renegade

@mitu said in Scraper crashes ES:

I tried to uninstall/ reinstall scraper and skyscraper. Setupscript is up to date as well as basic install.

The internal ES scraper doesn't use scraper or skyscraper, re-installing them will not affect EmulationStation.

Do you have enough space on the system where it's not working ? Run EmulationStation with the --debug parameter from the command line, then post the log on pastebin.com. You can find the log in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

Ahha. I found the issue by looking at the ES.log you were interested in. After renaming the gamelist.xml and rebooting, the system scraped itself!!! Very cool! Only MAME is in use this was simply enough to find/ correct.

I stated I had built two images at the same time and only one worked. One for horizontal display arcade machine (Joust), the other vertical (DigDug). I had about 980 roms total, only 68 were vertical LOL. So after deleting over 900 roms, I needed to clean up.

rasp_renegade

@mitu

It is not fixed after all. What scraped it was skyscraper. When I try to scrape a rom through the GUI in ES, it still goes to the cli. With or without the scraper/ skyscraper packages installed

Here is the es.log.
https://pastebin.com/rLD4kL5H

The log complains about all the missing roms that I had deleted previously. Where is it getting the paths from to even know?

sleve_mcdichael

@rasp_renegade said in Scraper crashes ES:

The log complains about all the missing roms that I had deleted previously. Where is it getting the paths from to even know?

From the gamelist XML:

May 05 02:37:08 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro/gamelist.xml"...
May 05 02:37:08 lvl1: 	File "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/dowild.zip" does not exist! Ignoring.

mitu

A missing game file shouldn't be an issue.
@rasp_renegade can you post your gamelist.xml on pastebin.com or somewhere else ? It's strange that after deleting it, it still keeps the missing entries.

rasp_renegade

@mitu

Too many hours of troubleshooting make me blind. I had swapped gamelists and forgot, so disregard the part about old files. Anything else useful in that log?

mitu

@rasp_renegade said in Scraper crashes ES:

. I had swapped gamelists and forgot, so disregard the part about old files. Anything else useful in that log?

I don't see any issues in the log.