Retropie image fails to start emulationstation

bo1e

This is what happens when it tries to start emulationstation after booting up.

some path/autostart.sh: line 1: emulationstation: command not found

What gives.

deBUGj

Same problem , no solution :-(

Cornelius

CoreELEC supports retro gaming, as does LIbreELEC I believe. I've only played around with the SNES and GBA ones, but so far I haven't experienced any problems. Only trouble I had was getting the controller to work and that was solved by switching the driver from Linux to Udev.

deBUGj

Yeah but when they publish an image it should work ? :-O

Cornelius

Well your not wrong. I'm just presenting you with another option, since for the time being that image doesn't appear to work.

deBUGj

:-) and thanks for that , I reinstalled my old 2.1 Lakka distro as the 2.2.2 does not seem to work either :-(

bo1e

Was going to try the latest lakka since retropie is not working, but I guess I can skip that then.

loverpi

We will have new builds of RetroPie as soon as some bits are upstreamed this week.

MsDeUni

Any word on an update, I purchased this Le Potato for my husband to make a movie center. If I don't have some time frame of a fix, he will have me return the Potato for a traditional Pi. He was already irritated that he couldn't just plug in the Pi SD card and it work.

Cornelius

@MsDeUni said:
Any word on an update, I purchased this Le Potato for my husband to make a movie center. If I don't have some time frame of a fix, he will have me return the Potato for a traditional Pi. He was already irritated that he couldn't just plug in the Pi SD card and it work.

If you are looking to use it as a Media Center, why not just use CoreELEC? I actually have two Le Potato's setup as Media Centers and they work flawlessly. Way better picture quality and performance than a traditional Pi.

One is setup on the main TV and the other on a smaller LCD panel at my desk, mostly used for casting Youtube video's too and random retro gaming when I'm bored.

Smaller LCD Panel Setup

oakie212

Just checking if there's any updates on this?  Thanks.

rydr_white

months later and still no word. Sent a message to them on facebook messenger. They've seen my response but haven't replied... sad day...

PowderLinux

Guys this image has been broken for almost a year.. What is going on?

RetroPie is the reason I ordered this board- I am starting to feel like that was false advertising.

Rodger

I downloaded the Retropie image thinking it would work the same as Raspberry pi but it didn't work. After researching I found this forum and I don't believe we are going to see a new retropie image anytime soon. I would suggest using Emuelec instead. Check the links below:
https://github.com/EmuELEC/EmuELEC/releases

Download Image:
https://github.com/EmuELEC/EmuELEC/releases/download/v3.4/EmuELEC-Amlogic.arm-3.4-LePotato.img.gz

Rodger

Guys i have also found this post:
https://forum.loverpi.com/discussion/891/retropie-how-to-get-the-current-build-to-load-emulationsation#latest

This is how to finish installing the Retropie image:
This is for this image libre-computer-aml-s905x-cc-ubuntu-bionic-retropie-4.19.23-02688-g18236d345948-dirty-2019-02-18.zip Here
Obviously your le Potato will need internet for this. Once you've booted see the bit about EmulationStation not being found, you're dropped to a Bash prompt do:

sudo apt install rapidjson-dev

then:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie-setup.sh

From here you will select "Manage packages", then "Manage core packages", then "emulationstation", then "Update from source" It seemed to take less than 10 min for me. 
Restart and you should be on your way. 

slaminger

I'm going to necro this post to let you know you can build ARES from git using the mali-drm-gles2 build flag. Its up and running on la frite now, need someone to try on potato! It uses armbian focal.
www.gitlab.com/slaminger/ares-setup

linux_noob

Rodger said:

<deletia>
This is for this image libre-computer-aml-s905x-cc-ubuntu-bionic-retropie-4.19.23-02688-g18236d345948-dirty-2019-02-18.zip Here
<deletia> Once you've booted see the bit about EmulationStation not being found, you're dropped to a Bash prompt do:

sudo apt install rapidjson-dev

then:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie-setup.sh

From here you will select "Manage packages", then "Manage core packages", then "emulationstation", then "Update from source" 

There appears to be a syntax error as the script is named retropie_setup.sh and not

retropie-setup.sh

(Underscore, not dash)

so, to launch the script installation:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

agent156  and @Rodger THANK YOU AGAIN!