[HowTo] RetroPie and OSMC: Retrosmc - Retrogaming on OSMC

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@birdmanofalcatraz @scottmbritton @Onizuka @ender11122

I had already typed out a reply how I could second your description of the problem because I, too, ran into it yesterday during a reinstall. Of all the search engine results for /usr/bin/emulationstation Segmentation fault $es_bin “$@”’ there was one which I hadn’t read yet, and it turned out to contain the solution. Shoutout to hakuya on Github who posted the solution:

@hakuya

I was getting a
/usr/bin/emulationstation: line 13: 1557 Segmentation fault $es_bin “$@”

When trying to launch from the OSMC addon. Was launching fine when I called the retropie.sh script over ssh. Seems emulationstation does not work nicely when it is launched from certain directories (presumably ones it can’t write to). I worked around this by adding a

cd /home/osmc

just below the shbang of the retropie.sh script.

Running latest OSMC 2018.12

So if this isn’t self-explanatory, ssh into your RetrOSMC installation, open the script in question with a text editor like nano:

nano RetroPie/scripts/retropie.sh

and add the line

cd /home/osmc

below the initial shebang so it looks like this:

Press Ctrl + O to save the edited script, then Ctrl + X to exit.

Doesn’t work with the launcher of the 0.009 beta, though. If you’ve used it, you have to remove the 0.009 install script, download the 0.007 install script, make it executable, run it, have it uninstall the current launcher, and then install the 0.007 launcher again.

Happy gaming!