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    • RE: emulationstation does not start on RPi3b on RB8 using composite

      I have the same issue. RPi3, freshly installed Recalbox 8.
      Recalbox boots up and I successfully get a video signal via composite.
      But it stops at the "ghosts" splash screen, because Emulationstation fails to start up, with es_log.txt showing:

      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.015] (INFO ) : [StaticLifeCycleControler] RecalboxConf instance created.
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.015] (INFO ) : [StaticLifeCycleControler] NotificationManager instance created.
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.016] (INFO ) : [MainRunner] EmulationStation - v 8.0-Electron, built Dec  1 2021 - 13:30:17
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.016] (WARN!) : [Locale] /usr/bin/locale/lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.mo not found.
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.017] (WARN!) : [Locale] /usr/bin/locale/lang/en/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.mo not found.
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.017] (WARN!) : [Locale] /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.mo not found.
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.017] (INFO ) : [Locale] Using /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.mo
      [2021/12/05 02:50:10.114] (ERROR) : [SDL2] Fatal error initializing SDL 2
      

      Which seems to be tried repeatedly, since recalbox.log fills up with:

      [       32.93] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1707)
      [       33.12] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] emulationstation exited code 134
      [       33.13] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1715)
      [       33.32] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] emulationstation exited code 134
      [       33.33] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1723)
      [       33.54] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] emulationstation exited code 134
      [       33.54] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1731)
      [       33.74] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] emulationstation exited code 134
      [       33.74] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1739)
      [       33.94] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] emulationstation exited code 134
      [       33.94] [emulationstation-starter] [ES] started emulationstation (pid=1747)
      

      EDIT: Configured according to the wiki, i.e.

      in recalbox-user-config.txt

      sdtv_mode=2
      hdmi_ignore_hotplug=1
      audio_pwm_mode=2
      

      and in recalbox.conf

      global.videomode=default
      
      posted in Recalbox General
      dahauns
      dahauns