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  • 04/24/2014 at 21:46 #6280
    cortx
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    Hello;

    I’d some problem with my save when I shutdown the raspberry; see: https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/saved-game-lost-after-reboot/
    All is now OK with a restart every time that I’ve finished to play.

    I buy a shutdown circuit to shutdown the raspberry pi with a power buton.
    With this module, when I push the power buton, the command “sudo poweroff” is send to the system.
    I can modify this script with some other command.

    Is it possible to send a system command to shut down the emulator before shutdown the Raspberry ?
    With that, there will be no more problem with my save.
    How can I do that ?

    I run a “sudo ps” but don’t find an explicit process name about retropie or retroarch.

    /etc$ sudo ps
    PID TTY TIME CMD
    1 ? 00:00:01 init
    2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
    3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    5 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:0H
    6 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u:0
    7 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u:0H
    8 ? 00:00:00 khelper
    9 ? 00:00:00 kdevtmpfs
    10 ? 00:00:00 netns
    12 ? 00:00:00 bdi-default
    13 ? 00:00:00 kblockd
    14 ? 00:00:00 khubd
    15 ? 00:00:00 rpciod
    16 ? 00:00:00 khungtaskd
    17 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
    18 ? 00:00:00 fsnotify_mark
    19 ? 00:00:00 nfsiod
    20 ? 00:00:00 crypto
    27 ? 00:00:00 kthrotld
    28 ? 00:02:21 VCHIQ-0
    29 ? 00:00:18 VCHIQr-0
    30 ? 00:00:00 VCHIQs-0
    31 ? 00:00:00 iscsi_eh
    32 ? 00:00:00 dwc_otg
    33 ? 00:00:00 DWC Notificatio
    35 ? 00:00:03 mmcqd/0
    36 ? 00:00:00 deferwq
    37 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u:2
    39 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/mmcblk0p2-
    40 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
    155 ? 00:00:00 udevd
    724 ? 00:00:00 udevd
    725 ? 00:00:00 udevd
    1623 ? 00:00:03 ifplugd
    1660 ? 00:00:01 ifplugd
    1971 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
    2053 ? 00:00:00 rsyslogd
    2117 ? 00:00:00 cron
    2225 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
    2241 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
    2250 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
    2334 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
    2344 ? 00:00:00 sshd
    2351 ? 00:00:00 smbd
    2371 ? 00:00:00 smbd
    2407 ? 00:00:27 switch.sh
    2408 ? 00:00:00 startpar
    2451 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
    2520 ? 00:00:00 polkitd
    2546 ? 00:00:00 VCHIQka-0
    2697 ? 00:00:00 my_queue
    11548 ? 00:00:00 sshd
    12036 ? 00:00:00 sshd
    13694 ? 00:00:04 kworker/0:2
    14297 ? 00:00:05 kworker/0:0
    14763 ? 00:00:00 flush-179:0
    14884 ? 00:00:02 kworker/0:1
    15142 ? 00:00:00 sleep
    15143 ? 00:00:00 sudo
    15144 ? 00:00:00 ps

    04/24/2014 at 22:02 #6282
    cortx
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    I’m a very newbie in linux command.
    But I’ve found that:
    /etc$ ps aux | grep *retro*

    pi 2662 0.0 0.1 1752 508 tty1 S+ 17:53 0:00 sh -c /home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 “/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/RetroPie/emulatorcores/picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so –config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg –appendconfig /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/Streets\ of\ Rage.bin”
    pi 2663 0.0 0.3 4276 1300 tty1 S+ 17:53 0:00 /bin/bash /home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/RetroPie/emulatorcores/picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so –config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg –appendconfig /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/Streets\ of\ Rage.bin
    pi 2690 49.7 1.7 76448 6888 tty1 Rl+ 17:54 59:12 /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/RetroPie/emulatorcores/picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so –config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg –appendconfig /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/Streets of Rage.bin
    pi 16527 1.0 0.2 3540 808 ? S 19:53 0:00 grep retroarch.cfg

    /etc$ ps -u pi

    PID TTY TIME CMD
    2530 tty1 00:00:00 bash
    2539 tty1 00:00:00 emulationstatio
    2543 tty1 00:00:16 emulationstatio
    2662 tty1 00:00:00 sh
    2663 tty1 00:00:00 runcommand.sh
    2690 tty1 00:59:35 retroarch
    11569 ? 00:00:00 sshd
    11570 ? 00:00:00 sftp-server
    12057 ? 00:00:00 sshd
    12058 ? 00:00:00 bash
    16614 ? 00:00:00 ps

    With the Time start and Time elapsed columns I thinks the process is the PID 2690
    But witch one should I kill: The one from “ps -u pi” or the one from “pa aux | grep *retro*”

    How can I kill a process without know the number ?

    04/25/2014 at 04:44 #6293
    RazorX2014
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    i dont understand why you need to do this all you do is save your game then load up the ingame gui and click quit retroarch and it takes you back to the emulators screen where you can hit the start button on your pad or whatever you have set the menu to then click shutdown and thats it.

    if you have an issue with saving make sure the save directory is set to default on the ingame gui and if it is and its still not working run
    sudo chmod 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
    and then reboot and try to save and see if that fixes it

    04/25/2014 at 16:50 #6311
    cortx
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    Hello;

    I’m want to do that to never forgot to exit with my gamepad to save.
    And I’ve set my raspberry into a NES case. That way I can use the power and reset buton of the case.
    If I shutdown the raspberry with my gamepad, the buton power will always stay in “power on” mode and the red LED always active even if the raspberry is shutdown.
    *****************

    Problem solved, a Simple command “sudo poweroff” works.
    Even if I have not exit the game.

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