EmulationStation freezes/hangs when you attempt to edit a game's description in metadata.
How to reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Go to any game, press X.
Select "Edit this game's metadata" (at the very bottom) and press A.
Select "Description" and press A to edit it.
Information
ROCKNIX Version: 20240517
Hardware Platform: PowKiddy RGB30
Log file
I see nothing change in /var/log when attempting to edit a game's info. es_log.txt doesn't update. es_launch_stdout.log and es_launch_stderr.log are zero bytes.
Context
This has been a long-standing issue since JELOS (I first noticed it in October 2023, when I got my RGB30). I couldn't report it anywhere back then since the JELOS developers didn't accept bug reports. Running "killall -9 emulationstation" seems to be the quickest way to get things going again. Editing other fields in metadata doesn't seem to be a problem. It's only the "Description" field that causes things to freeze up (so changes/corrections to a game's description must be done by manually editing the gamelist.xml file).
Describe the bug
EmulationStation freezes/hangs when you attempt to edit a game's description in metadata.
How to reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Information
Log file
I see nothing change in /var/log when attempting to edit a game's info. es_log.txt doesn't update. es_launch_stdout.log and es_launch_stderr.log are zero bytes.
Context
This has been a long-standing issue since JELOS (I first noticed it in October 2023, when I got my RGB30). I couldn't report it anywhere back then since the JELOS developers didn't accept bug reports. Running "killall -9 emulationstation" seems to be the quickest way to get things going again. Editing other fields in metadata doesn't seem to be a problem. It's only the "Description" field that causes things to freeze up (so changes/corrections to a game's description must be done by manually editing the gamelist.xml file).