So I have been trying to set up RetroPie as outlined in a few threads I started. I have had several problems along the line – first, xboxdrv won’t work – in order to run it manually, I must run ‘rmmod xpad’ – then xboxdrv will start. The controller works without xboxdrv, but it never stops flashing the LEDs. When trying to set up the service, it kept complaining that a file was missing.

Probably the biggest problem – simply having my USB hub connected to the RPi will cause a Kernel Debug every time – It’ll just hang at the splash screen. I know know it’s crashing because I caught it once by switching to a second terminal screen while it was booting (Alt+F2). I ended up with a <kdb> and a lot of debug info.

I then loaded Raspian and started from there – it didn’t crash with my hub attached, I was able to get xboxdrv installed and ran properly as a service on boot – I then grabbed the RetroPie installer and ran that – the problem there is it seems a bunch of packages can’t be authenticated so they fail to install. I got the following message when trying to run emulationstation after installing all of the emulators: ‘/home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/EmulationStation/emulationstation: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_filesystem.so.1.49.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory’. Still got the message after installing ‘libboost-system-dev’ (which required that it either be run without the -y switch and be prompted to install, or use the –force-yes command to override the wanting about the packages that couldn’t be verified.

You probably should update the script to use the ‘–force-yes’ switch instead of the ‘-y’ switch so that required packages that can’t be verified still get installed…