RetroPie Setup Script not loading

Buddha98

Hi everyone, new here and new to Raspberry Pi (had it for just 1 week now)

I've installed Raspbian using NOOBS and updated it and have installed the latest version of Retropie, installed some roms and got Kodi up and running within RetroPie.

I have my RPi set up to boot into Kodi which I did using the RetroPie Setup but now I cannot access the RetroPie Setup script from the menu, I just get a black screen. Could anyone help me? Please tell me if I need to give more information
Thanks :)

Buddha98

Just to add to this, I actually cannot access any of the menus e.g. Audio or bluetooth.

I'm worried this has something to do with switching off power to the raspberry without shutting it down properly. I know this is bad but a couple of times I've had the Pi crash on me or for some reason have had to switch off the power.

meleu

@Buddha98 try adding plymouth.enable=0 to the /boot/cmdline.txt. It must be at the end of the first-and-only-one line.

Then reboot and try again.

aschwan

@meleu how do you edit the /boot/cmdline.txt?

i get
/boot/cmdline.txt: line 1: dwc-otg.lpm_enable=0: command not found
when I type /boot/cmdline.txt into the terminal.

BuZz

The black screen is due to the screen not being reset after exiting Kodi. It's a new bug due to timing etc, but actually it could have happened before, as the Kodi launch script didn't do a delay after running tvservice -p which is required before resetting the framebuffer.

edit (via nano) - see https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and between the kodi and emulationstation lines add the line sleep 1; fbset -depth 8; fbset -depth 32

so it will look like

kodi #auto
sleep 1; fbset -depth 8; fbset -depth 32
emulationstation #auto

aschwan

@BuZz
fixed my problem like this

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup
git reset --hard
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

BuZz

@aschwan this is a different issue (Their script is launching but they can't see it)