Error when loading shared libraries libudev.so.1

[cheeturbo7]

Hello –

I recently installed RetroPie using the disk images and am running into an issue running NES games from EmulationStation (I haven’t tested others yet). When I try to run a game it just goes back to EmulationStation.

I am getting the following error message in runcommand.log

/opt/retropie/emulators/retoarch/bin/retroarch: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[petrockblog]

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev

sounds like you removed some packages it relies on or something else has happened.

[cheeturbo7]

[quote=111906]sudo apt-get install libudev-dev

sounds like you removed some packages it relies on or something else has happened.

[/quote]

Unfortunately, this did not work.


libudev-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcap-ng0 libdbus-glib-1-2 python-dbus python-dbus-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


I even went as far as formatting the SD card, re-downloading the images and started over but I am still receiving the same error message in runcommand.log

[petrockblog]

hmm no-one else has reported this with the last images. Which image are you using ? are you doing any updates after writing etc ?

[cheeturbo7]

I’m using the standard image found here: https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/retropie-sd-card-image-for-raspberry-pi-2-2/ Which is the RetroPie SD-card image Version 3.2.1 for Raspberry Pi 2 Downloaded via torrent

After first boot I have been expanding the file system, overclocking to Pi2, setting GPU split, turn on SSH

Then updating the Raspi-config script and Retropie_Setup script

After that I have been doing
apt-get update

Then doing the binary-based installation from the Retropie_Setup script.

[jheth]

I ran into the exact same problem tonight after upgrading the retropie setup script and then doing a binary install to get all the latest changes.

I found /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libudev.so.0 and tried to symlink it to /lib/libudev.so.0 and /lib/libudev.so.1.

but after that I’m getting the error:

/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15′ not found (required by /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch)

It seems like the apt-get update that happens during binary install may have removed some packages. Any ideas?

UPDATE:

I ended up upgrading rasbian to jessie, by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and changing wheezy to jessie, then sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade. This installed the missing shared objects and GLIBC_2.15 requirement. Then I went through the reptropie binary install again.

After reboot emulationstation was now broken due to missing libboost.so, so I did apt-get install using the dependency list here found here http://emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html

Now my nes games are launching as before. I haven’t played at length or tested other emulators though.

[bubbles]

I also experienced this same issue today. Everything was working fine before the update, and now I can’t launch any retroarch emulators. I’m currently trying to build retroarch from source on my pi.

Update: Compiling from source seemed to fix the issue. I can now play NES games again. The SNES emulator loads the roms, but freezes. I’m going to attempt to recompile the SNES emulator over night.

[petrockblog]

oh right, yeh don’t re-install from binaries at the moment, I am preparing a new release, and have been rebuilding some of the binaries. I just rebuilt retroarch and I need to revisit it (It’s possible I may have accidentally uploaded the jessie release to wheezy), so until it is fixed you can recompile it from source.

[petrockblog]

BTW if starting from the 3.2.1 image, after downloading you shouldn’t need to update retropie-setup and re-install from binaries. Doing so will give you a snapshot of where we are at currently, but there can be problems sometimes, especially when close to a new release. Best done after we have just released a new version, as things will be more tested then.

[petrockblog]

I also wouldn’t recommend updating to Jessie yet. Jessie support is still a work in progress.

[petrockblog]

I have updated retroarch binaries. Please can you reinstall just retroarch from binary and let me know if it works for you. thanks.

[jheth]

Any idea when jessie support will be available?
What are the outstanding issues?
How would I downgrade to wheezy?

[petrockblog]

When it’s done. Maybe an image to test soon.

I still need to do more testing – you can see progress of development on the github repository.

Downgrading is not really possible – you can backup / start with a new image.

[cheeturbo7]

[quote=111996]I have updated retroarch binaries. Please can you reinstall just retroarch from binary and let me know if it works for you. thanks.

[/quote]

Fixed the issue. Thanks Buzz you’re awesome.

[cheeturbo7]

Getting an new error when attempting to run PiSNES, not sure if its related to the same issue.

/opt/retropie/emulators/pisnes/snes9x: error while loading shared libraries: libEGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Edit: Compiling from source fixed the issue.

[petrockblog]

Likely due to me accidentally rebuilding that when I had the Raspbian mesa EGL libraries installed. I’ve rebuilt – please can you reinstall.

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