Emulation station starts and crashes/blocks

giventofly

Retropie starts ok, emulation station starts booting, then loads half the screen and blocks.

here is the emulation station log: http://pastebin.com/q7R6FPHP

pi3 b

i can connect thru ssh, no overclock. did a fsck too.

when i kill emulation station the keyboard doesn't work on tty1.

BuZz

Thanks for the log, but please try and provide more information as detailed here - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

What version of RetroPie ?

Have you overclocked ?

What PSU ?

What ES theme are you using and what is your current memory split ? See https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death (ES can crash in many ways when it runs of out GPU memory)

giventofly

@BuZz said in Emulation station starts and crashes/blocks:

Thanks for the log, but please try and provide more information as detailed here - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

What version of RetroPie ?
4.1 updated from 4.02 but working all right for a long time.

Have you overclocked ?
yes, but aready tested with no overclock same result.

What PSU ?

already with a recommended PSU.

What ES theme are you using and what is your current memory split ? See https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death (ES can crash in many ways when it runs of out GPU memory)

hum... ok, i guess it started blocking when i added another system.

i'm with gpu_mem_1024=256

using <string name="ThemeSet" value="tronkyfran" /> how do i know the "codename" to try other? or put the default ?

edit: but i'm not getting white screen, it locks halfway. i'm doing a apt-get upgrade, and will try another theme the default to see how it goes. after that, will try to delete some systems.

what should be the next step if that doens't work?

BuZz

As I said it doesn't always just cause a white screen - it can crash in many ways.

Edit the config and switch the theme to carbon or increase gpu mem or lower number of systems.

giventofly

@BuZz gpu_mem can go over 256? can i put arbitrary values or 2^x ?

BuZz

@giventofly said in Emulation station starts and crashes/blocks:

@BuZz gpu_mem can go over 256? can i put arbitrary values or 2^x ?

doesn't have to be a power of 2 afaik. See here for maximums:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md

giventofly

well... after the apt-get upgrade it started working again perfectly