Retropie menu changed.

[johnnypanic]

Having a problem with my Retropie, since turning it off and restarting emulationstation all my roms seem to have lost info and the retropie menu in emulationstation seems to have gone into a very basic setup. The roms are no problem as I can scrape, but the retropie config menu (wifi, bluetooth etc) seems to have devolved into one word abbreviations of whatever the option was. Does anyone have any idea as to what has happened?

[Riverstorm]

I had this happen twice to me. Once when I was compiling ScummVM for some reason it wiped out the gamelist.xml files when I ran the make command. It didn't wipe them all out but some of them.

Here's what the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml looks like normally but when I lost all descriptions in the RetroPie setup screen it changed into a zero byte file.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
	<game>
		<path>./audiosettings.rp</path>
		<name>Audio</name>
		<desc>Configure audio settings. Choose default of 'auto', 3.5mm jack, or HDMI. Mixer controls, and apply default settings.</desc>
		<image>./icons/audiosettings.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./bluetooth.rp</path>
		<name>Bluetooth</name>
		<desc>Register and connect to bluetooth devices. Unregister and remove devices, and display registered and connected devices..</desc>
		<image>./icons/bluetooth.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./configedit.rp</path>
		<name>Configuration Editor</name>
		<desc>Change common RetroArch options, and manually edit RetroArch configs, global configs, and non-RetroArch configs.</desc>
		<image>./icons/configedit.png</image>
		<playcount>2</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20160509T181103</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./esthemes.rp</path>
		<name>ES Themes</name>
		<desc>Install, uninstall, or update EmulationStation themes. Most themes can be previewed at https://github.com/retropie/ RetroPie-Setup/wiki/themes.</desc>
		<image>./icons/esthemes.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./filemanager.rp</path>
		<name>File Manager</name>
		<desc>Basic ascii file manager for linux allowing you to browse, copy, delete, and move files. </desc>
		<image>./icons/filemanager.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./raspiconfig.rp</path>
		<name>Raspi-Config</name>
		<desc>Change user password, boot options, internationalization, camera, add your pi to Rastrack, overclock, overscan, memory split, SSH and more.</desc>
		<image>./icons/raspiconfig.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./retroarch.rp</path>
		<name>Retroarch</name>
		<desc>Launches RetroArch with the GUI raised so you can change RetroArch options. Note: changes will not be saved unless you have enabled writing to the retroarch.cfg file.</desc>
		<image>./icons/retroarch.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./retronetplay.rp</path>
		<name>RetroArch Net Play</name>
		<desc>Set up RetroArch Netplay options, choose host or client, port, host IP, delay frames, and your nickname.</desc>
		<image>./icons/retronetplay.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./rpsetup.rp</path>
		<name>RetroPie Setup</name>
		<desc>Install RetroPie from binary or source, install experimental packages, additional drivers, edit samba shares, custom scraper, as well as other RetroPie-related configurations.</desc>
		<image>./icons/rpsetup.png</image>
		<playcount>9</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20160426T174904</lastplayed>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./runcommand.rp</path>
		<name>Run Command Editor</name>
		<desc>Change what appears on the runcommand screen. Enable or disable the menu, enable or disable box art, and change CPU configuration.</desc>
		<image>./icons/runcommand.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./showip.rp</path>
		<name>Show IP</name>
		<desc>Displays your current IP address, as well as other information provided by the command, "ip addr show."</desc>
		<image>./icons/showip.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./splashscreen.rp</path>
		<name>Splash Screens</name>
		<desc>Enable or disable the splashscreen on RetroPie boot. Choose a splashscreen, download new splashscreens, and return splashscreen to default.</desc>
		<image>./icons/splashscreen.png</image>
	</game>
	<game>
		<path>./wifi.rp</path>
		<name>WiFi</name>
		<desc>Connect to or disconnect from a wifi network and configure wifi settings.</desc>
		<image>./icons/wifi.png</image>
	</game>
</gameList>

Here's what the emulator file should have at a minimum. If it's a zero byte file with nothing you'll get an error:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList />

The other time was when I ran my SD card out of space. Not a good thing.

I had to revert to a backup to get things working properly again. If you don't have a backup handy you might have to start from a scratch image.

[johnnypanic]

@Riverstorm said in Retropie menu changed.:

I had this happen twice to me. Once when I was compiling ScummVM for some reason it wiped out
I had to revert to a backup to things working properly again. If you don't have a backup handy you might have to start from a scratch image.

That's what I was thinking, cheers man. :/