emulationstation crash

Qiset

After initial boot and subsequent reboots of my pi, it give this message "illegal instruction" and crashes to the command prompt. When I follow the boot process, all the boot messages say "ok".
From what I've read here, it seems that emulationstation is crashing when it tries to run. I manually ran it from the prompt and got the same message and again was left at the prompt.
I tried running emulationstation with the debug switch (--debug) and it too gave the same result.
This error must occur early in the running because there is no es_log.txt file. I tried adding the GL graphics from raspi-config as suggested in a similar post but it did not work. Another suggestion was to try a different output display. I did and it was the same. I've created the os in two different ways (they are probably the same way). I downloaded the file from retropie.org.uk and loaded it that way, and also tried letting rpi-imager get the file. Each time it behaved the same.
The only hint that I have from reading the various posts here is that I may not have the right version. That being said, other that clicking on the proper items, I don't know how to get the right version or even if that is the issue.
Any clues?

Pi model: 2B
power supply (5v, 2.5a)
RetroPie Version 4.8
Built from: (pre made sd image on RetroPie website)
usb devices connected: mouse, keyboard, controller
controller used: miadore usb snes retro controller
error messages receive: "illegal instruction"
verbose log: none
guide used: instructions on retropie.org.uk
file: download from retropie.org.uk
emulator: ?
attachment of config files: ?
how to replicate the problem: reboot or run emulationstation from prompt

mitu

@Qiset said in emulationstation crash:

The only hint that I have from reading the various posts here is that I may not have the right version. That being said, other that clicking on the proper items, I don't know how to get the right version or even if that is the issue.
Any clues?

Which RetroPie image did you use to install ? Are you sure it's a Raspberry Pi 2B and not something older ?

Qiset

@mitu Ok, These commands are what I used to get the pi model information:
$ cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model
It returned this:
Raspberry Pi model B rev 2
$ pinout
among a lot of other data had the model as this:
Pi model
B ver 2.0
My understanding is that the B means that it has ethernet (which is does).

For retropie, I clicked on the link that was labeled "Raspberry Pi 2/3/zero 2 w"
that was on the download site of retropie.org.uk.

Qiset

@Qiset I didn't like the way that model information was presented to me so I did some checking.
Your first assessment is correct, I think. The model B is not a model 2 even though it has a rev 2 listed. Time to do a head slap.