Various issues on a new Retropie

Skum1988

@mitu I am using Comicbook maybe that's why

This is the error message that I get everytime I switch on my Rapsberry pi 4 (after not using for awhile). When I reboot however I don't get this message anymore and I can play but it's a bit annoying to get this message every time I launch Emulation station

Thorr69

@Skum1988 Are you doing a proper shutdown? Or are you just unplugging the device?

Skum1988

@Thorr69 Now I am pressing reboot. But before I unplugged the device regularly because I didnt realize that you can use a keyboard to reboot RetroPie

mitu

@Skum1988 said in Various issues on a new Retropie:

@mitu I am using Comicbook maybe that's why

CommicBook has a MD/Genesis logo, so that shouldn't be an issue. Try re-installing the theme and check afterwards.

Skum1988

@mitu thanks. Any solution for my Retropie that crashes at every launch? I can't seem to see what caused the problem. I have to reboot all the time for it to work.... thanks ahead

mitu

@Skum1988 said in Various issues on a new Retropie:

I can't seem to see what caused the problem.

Try to look into the EmulationStation log when the crash happens - the message with the error you posted is a generic one that's printed when ES crashes, but check the log file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt. Post the file's contents, taken immediately when the crash message happens.

I've seen ES crashing when the gamepad's connection is unreliable - usually when the USB cable is bad or there's not enough power supplied to the system. etc. Is your gamepad connected when the crash happens ? You didn't mention how the 8bitdo SNES 30 pro is connected (USB or Bluetooth).

Skum1988

@mitu

I am using a wired controller. Like before Emulation station would crash when I plugged in my controller in the menu. Right now it crashes right when I boot up EmuStation after I see all the code lines. Here's what I saw after the crash. After reboot it works fine tho

mitu

I don't see a crash related error in the log file, but the last message is about a Microsoft Xbox 360 controller being detected, which is weird since you said you're using a 8Bitdo controller. Did you install the xboxdrv driver ?

Skum1988

@mitu my snes 30 is detected as a Xbox controller I don't really know why it does that. I haven't downloaded the Xbox driver but I can try... As I said yesterday the Pi immediately crashed when booting up the system. And indeed there is no error message that's why I am totally lost... I have tried to change the theme back to carbon to no avail unfortunately

mitu

@Skum1988 said in Various issues on a new Retropie:

[..] I have tried to change the theme back to carbon to no avail unfortunately

How are you trying to do that, exactly ? Changing it from the EmulationStation menu and then rebooting cleanly should save the configuration (w.r.t. the theme selected) and EmulationStation should start with the new chosen theme automatically.

Skum1988

@mitu that's what I am doing. I have reverted back to Carbon through this method but it doesn't fix the crashes at boot

mitu

@Skum1988 said in Various issues on a new Retropie:

I have reverted back to Carbon through this method but it doesn't fix the crashes at boot

Well, yes - I don't think ES would crash because of that.

Can you run the following command after it crashes on boot, but before you reboot the Pi, and post the output:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation --debug

Skum1988

@mitu it says No such file or directory when I type this command line

mitu

@Skum1988 Make sure you properly type the path to emulationstation, it should be there. Did you install the emulationstation-dev packagee ? If so, then the path is slightly different (/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev/emulationstation instead).