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    Emulation Station won't boot after removing Child Friendly version

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      soonerdoc
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      Hello all. I hope this is the correct place to post.

      I installed the experimental child friendly version of emulation station to test out the favorites option. Seemed to really slow down the system so I removed the child friendly version (uninstalled it) and now emulation station will not boot. Retropie starts up and then crashes to a command line screen. See the following message:

      /usr/bin/emulationstation: line 21: /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh: No such file or directory.

      Seems as if it is still looking for the child friendly version after I uninstalled it. Any help getting the regular version of emulation station up and running would be very much appreciated. Here is that file:

      #!/bin/bash

      if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
      echo "emulationstation should not be run as root. If you used 'sudo emulationstation' please run without sudo."
      exit 1
      fi

      if [[ "$(uname --machine)" != 86 ]]; then
      if [[ -n "$(pidof X)" ]]; then
      echo "X is running. Please shut down X in order to mitigate problems with losing keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE."
      exit 1
      fi
      fi

      save current tty/vt number for use with X so it can be launched on the correct tty

      tty=$(tty)
      export TTY="${tty:8:1}"

      clear
      tput civis
      "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-kids/emulationstation.sh" "$@"
      if [[ 0 -eq 139 ]]; then
      dialog --cr-wrap --no-collapse --msgbox "Emulation Station crashed!\n\nIf this is your first boot of RetroPie - make sure you are using the correct image for your system.\n\nCheck your rom file/folder permissions and if running on a Raspberry Pi, make sure your gpu_split is set high enough and/or switch back to using carbon theme.\n\nFor more help please use the RetroPie forum." 20 60 >/dev/tty
      fi
      tput cnorm

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        BuZz administrators @soonerdoc
        last edited by BuZz

        @soonerdoc run sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh and install the main ES version from Packages -> Core Packages (if it shows as installed, remove it and re-install)

        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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          soonerdoc @BuZz
          last edited by

          @BuZz Did that and now get retropie startup screen then crashes to command line and says

          Segmentation fault

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators @soonerdoc
            last edited by

            @soonerdoc If you install ES from source it will be fixed (or wait 30 mins and re-install from binary).

            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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