Can't start

[kykkus]

Hi, i have this problem:
when i try to star emulationstation it tells me that i haven't games, but I copy roms in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms//.*

what's wrong?

Error:

sudo emulationstation
lvl0: No systems found! Does at least one system have a game present? (check that extensions match!)

[Aloshi]

Do the extensions match what's in ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg? (e.g. zip files usually need to be extracted)

[kykkus]

Thanks for replay.
Yes extensions match.
Using ES-scraper, it's tell me: 158 games added.
I have noticed that if i try to start emulationstation without sudo give me a differnt error

Error without sudo:
/$ emulationstation
lvl0: Error initializing SDL!
Unable to open a console terminal
Are you in the 'video', 'audio', and 'input' groups? Is X closed? Is your firmware up to date? Are you using at least the 192/64 memory split?
lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: Window failed to initialize!

[marklarr]

I noticed something interesting. I ran the setup script while logged in as root user, so it created /home/root/RetroPie

When I went into /home/root/RetroPie/emulators/rpix86 and ran ls -l, I could see that the games symlink was actually pointing to /home/root/pi/RetroPie/roms/x86. Note that it's going to the pi user, not the root user.

I'm going to remove everything and rerun the setup script again, this time specifying the pi user with ./retropie_setup.sh pi

[marklarr]

Nothing changed. Still getting a white dot on emulationstation. Can't f4 to exit. If I do emulationstation in ssh, it just hangs, and if I ctrl-c I get No systems found! Does at least one system have a game present? (check that extensions match!)

[Aloshi]

Don't run the script as root. Run it with sudo ./retropie_setup.sh as the pi user (or other user you've created). EmulationStation uses the current user's home directory to access some configuration data, so it's important you install and run with the same user.

[marklarr]

Hey -- thanks, that did the trick! Now to get these 360 controller set up.
Very grateful.

[kykkus]

I found the problem:
if i run emulationstation with ssh-terminal i have that error (lvl0: Error initializing SDL!...) ,
if i run in raspberry's terminal emulationstations start without problems.
But if i start xbmc and close it with this script:

#!/bin/bash killall -9 xbmc.bin sleep 15 emulationstation exit

i have a black screen with a gray square in the center.
why?
thanks

[Aloshi]

As far as I know, you can't start EmulationStation over SSH.

[vulpineblaze]

I can start emulationstation over SSH, but the window appears on the raspberry pi's screen.

I'm having trouble getting started. I have the path to some SNES roms correct, but I get the "No systems found!" error.. I have no clue what i'm doing wrong :(