errors saving gamelist.xml

[InsecureSpike]

guys whenever i exit emulation station All of my gamelist.xml return errors,
i have a custom es_systems.cfg [re ordered list], but even when i use my stock back up i still get these issues..

lvl10: Error saving gamelist.xml to ""/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/[then system name folder]/gamelist.xml""

lvl10: Error saving gamelist.xml to ""/home/pi/RetroPie/roms[then system name folder]/gamelist.xml""

but they all work perfectly in emulation station
anyone else suffer with this?

[Anonymous]

I would first check the permissions of the file

ls -lah

Some Time ago i had some similar problem and solved it with deleting the file manually and rescrapping

[InsecureSpike]

ok, thanks for the reply,

what should the permissions be?

if the permissions are wrong, is there no way of edition them to correct them?

[labelwhore]

Since I don’t plan on having my PI connected to the internet once everything is up and running correctly, I just go for broke and set permissions to 777 on anything I’ve needed to edit.

[InsecureSpike]

ok, so what command do I need to set the rom folder home/pi/RetroPi/roms to 777?

thanks in advance

[labelwhore]

sudo chmod 777 -R /home/pi/Retropie/roms

for specific files, just remove the -R and add the filename to the end of the path. The -R sets permissions on all the files and subfolders under that folder specified including permissions of the top level folder.

[InsecureSpike]

that’s awesome! thanks fella! I’ll try this when I get home

[InsecureSpike]

oh no!
i did..
sudo chmod 777 -R /home/pi/Retropie/roms

and it sent my boot up into an “emulation station boot screen” loop lol

[Anonymous]

mhh… this shouldn’t happen….

my permission is

-rw-r–r– 1 pi pi 22615 Jan 20 21:25 gamelist.xml

put the sd-card into your linux pc and just change back…
the dir permission should be

rwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 21 23:19 .

sudo chmod 755 -R /home/pi/Retropie/roms

roms and files can be
rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 524800 Apr 9 2005 *.smc
(*.smc file ending of the rom)

so just
sudo chmod 777 /home/pi/Retropie/roms/*.smc

[InsecureSpike]

no probs, i’m starting with a clean install and ill go from there

thanks for the help guys

[petrockblog]

chmodding to 777 is not correct. That will make everything world read/writable and set the executable flag.

chown -R pi:pi ~/RetroPie/roms/

to make sure all roms are writable by the pi user.

chown -R pi:pi ~/.emulationstation/

to make sure pi user can write the gameslists etc.

[petrockblog]

of course none of this should be needed. ~/.emulationstation can get the wrong permissions if emulationstation is run via sudo though.

[InsecureSpike]

awesome thanks, buzz

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