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    • BuZzB
      BuZz administrators
      last edited by

      Assuming Emulation Station crashed - from an SSH connection please post the output of

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

      Please format it in a code block - see http://commonmark.org/help/

      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        pi101
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        I cant reply with the info for some reason it keeps saying marked as spam.

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators
          last edited by

          post it on an external pastebin site and link to it

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            pi101 @pi101
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            Sorry for not reading it. The first thing I did was search relevant issues. By doing that your sticky doesn't appear.

            pi 3b
            SD Image of Raspbian then ran the retropie script
            Just a keyboard and mouse
            Guide used: [link text](link url)
            How to replicate the problem: install retropie then reboot to cmd line and run emulationstation. I am running all of this directly on the pi3 b itself.

            Thanks

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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators @pi101
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              @pi101 said in retropie stuck:

              Sorry for not reading it. The first thing I did was search relevant issues. By doing that your sticky doesn't appear.

              It is linked when registering on the forum - you have to agree to read it when registering. It is also at the top of every page in bold. So don't see how you missed it.

              I will need to see the output of the command above as mentioned - if you ssh in you can easily copy and paste it (Don't forget to format it in a code block as I asked - http://commonmark.org/help/)

              https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

              If you are unable to do this, then I recommend you use a pre-made image, as manual installations are more suited for those that are comfortable at the command prompt.

              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                pi101
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                lvl2:   EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Oct 22 2016 - 21:35:15
                lvl2:   Creating surface...
                lvl2:   Created window successfully.
                lvl2:   Added unconfigured joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (GUID: 030000005e0400008e02000014010000, instance ID: 0, device index: 0).
                lvl2:   Checking available OpenGL extensions...
                lvl2:    ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
                lvl2:   Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg...
                lvl1:   System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
                terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
                  what():  boost::filesystem::create_directory: Permission denied: "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/amstradcpc"
                Aborted
                
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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators
                  last edited by BuZz

                  somehow the gameslist folder has got the wrong permissions (and possibly others). Did you use a scraper or launch emulationstation as root or do any file management as root ? you will need to chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  • BuZzB
                    BuZz administrators
                    last edited by BuZz

                    ok - it's a bug introduced recently by a change in retropiemenu. Fixing. (I see another reference to it on the forum). Would only affect fresh installs.

                    To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                      pi101 @BuZz
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                      @BuZz
                      Awseome. That worked! Thanks a bunch. I did not use a scraper and if I did it would be by mistake as I have no clue what that is. And I tried to launch it with sudo as I was trouble shooting this issue but upon doing so I received an error stating to not run emulationstation with sudo please try again. Something along those lines anyway.

                      Appreciate the help.

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                      • BuZzB
                        BuZz administrators
                        last edited by

                        should be fixed now for new installs.

                        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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