Emulation Station isn't starting anymore :-(

Water White

Hello everybody,

today I wanted to play with my retropie system, which I hadn't used for 6 weeks now. But its giving me an error message while booting emulation station. I'm getting the following error message:

"/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation: error while loading share libraries: libpthreaf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I'm using Retropie with a Raspberry Pi 3. The system was working without any problems 6 weeks ago. Can anybody help me?

rbaker

@Water-White Have you been pulling the power cord? either way, we need more info...
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
such as what power supply? other peripherals? Installed anything else? Does it crash to the command line, can you run the setup script?

Water White

I'm using the official raspberry pi power supply with the raspberry logo on it (5,1 V DC, max. 2,5 A). I can still run the setup script and I just did an update to the newest version of retropie a few minutes ago but unfortunatly that didnt solved the problem :-(

rbaker

@Water-White So have you been pulling the cord to power off?

Water White

@rbaker I'm not sure, maybe that happened accidently the last time I used it...

Water White

I had to edit the first post, cause I misspelled one word. Its "libpthreaf.so.0" and not "lipthreaf.so.0". Does anyone have a clue?

By the way: I dont find any infos about that "libpthreaf.so.0" file on google, there are only some infos about a "libpthread.so.0" file.

rbaker

@Water-White Are you sure it is not "libpthread"?

Water White

yes... I'm logged in in retropie right now via terminal and ssh. When I run the command "emulationstation" I get exactly this message, which I copied with cmd+c cmd+v here:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation: error while loading shared libraries: libpthreaf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

rbaker

@Water-White My advice is to rebuild your image.

Water White

Ok, does that mean, that I am loosing all my configurations, save games, custom boarders etc which I were building during the last months? or is there a way, to keep those?

edmaul69

@Water-White you should be able to ssh into it with a program like putty or if you can press f4 and get to the command line and in the command line type:

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then in there you can reinstall emulationstation

Water White

Yeah, you mean doing another "Basic Install"? I did this but the problem is still the same :-(

Water White

So I guess I have to format my sd card and do a completly new install?

BuZz

You are missing an important library - probably sdcard corruption or bad sdcard - although you could try reinstalling these libs, other stuff could be affected - reimage is the best bet. I have never had this happen on a good sdcard - so you might want to look into getting another.

Water White

I'm using an 32 gb intenso sd card. Would you call it a good one? @BuZz ?

BuZz

@Water-White no idea, but I've never heard of the brand.

Water White

@BuZz : You are right, the the sd card seems to be corrupted. I tried to format it and I got error meassages. So topic is done, thanks for your help :-)