(Linux) Segmentation Fault with Dell Inspirion

[DellInspirionUser]

First and foremost consider this:

• Only RetroArch bugs should be filed here. Not core bugs or game bugs
• This is not a forum or a help section, this is strictly developer oriented

Description

Retroarch window crashes to error report on Lubuntu 18.04. --verbose gives segmentaion error regardless of video driver config settings.

Expected behavior

Retroarch to load

Actual behavior

Crash to desktop

`dell@dell-Inspiron-1501:~$ sudo retroarch --verbose

 [INFO] RetroArch 1.7.3 (Git b2ceb50)

 [INFO] === Build =======================================
Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 
Built: May 15 2018

 [INFO] Version: 1.7.3

 [INFO] Git: b2ceb50

 [INFO] =================================================

 [INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.

 [INFO] Version of libretro API: 1

 [INFO] Compiled against API: 1

 [INFO] [Audio]: Set audio input rate to: 29970.03 Hz.

 [INFO] [Video]: Video @ 960x720 error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.

 [ERROR] [Wayland]: Failed to connect to Wayland server.

 [INFO] [GLX]: GLX_OML_sync_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control supported, using better swap control method...

 [INFO] [GL]: Found GL context: x

 [INFO] [GL]: Detecting screen resolution 1280x1024.

 [INFO] [GLX]: Window manager is Openbox.

 [INFO] [GLX]: X = 0, Y = 0, W = 960, H = 720.

 [INFO] [GLX]: Found swap function: glXSwapIntervalEXT.

 [INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)

 [INFO] [GL]: Vendor: X.Org R300 Project, Renderer: ATI RS480.

 [INFO] [GL]: Version: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5.

 [INFO] [GL]: Using resolution 960x720

 [INFO] [GL]: Default shader backend found: glsl.

 [INFO] [Shader driver]: Using GLSL shader backend.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Checking GLSL shader support ...

 [WARN] [GL]: Stock GLSL shaders will be used.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] Setting up menu pipeline shaders for XMB ... 

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.

 [INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.

 [INFO] Resetting shader to defaults ... 

 [INFO] [GL]: Using 4 textures.

 [INFO] [GL]: Loaded 1 program(s).

 [INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".

 [INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.

 [INFO] [X11]: Suspending screensaver (X11, xdg-screensaver).

 [INFO] [Video]: Found display server: x11

 [INFO] [PulseAudio]: Requested 24576 bytes buffer, got 18432.

 [INFO] [Menu]: Found menu display driver: "menu_display_gl".

 [INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.

 [INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.

 [INFO] [LED]: LED driver = 'null' 0xbb2200

 [INFO] SRAM will not be saved.

 [INFO] Loading history file: [/home/dell/.config/retroarch/content_history.lpl].

 [INFO] Loading history file: [/home/dell/.config/retroarch/content_favorites.lpl].

 [INFO] Loading history file: [/home/dell/.config/retroarch/content_music_history.lpl].

 [INFO] Loading history file: [/home/dell/.config/retroarch/content_video_history.lpl].

 [INFO] Loading history file: [/home/dell/.config/retroarch/content_image_history.lpl].

 [INFO] [GL]: VSync => on

 [INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)

 [INFO] [PulseAudio]: Unpausing.

 [INFO] [GL]: VSync => on

 [INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)

 [INFO] [PulseAudio]: Pausing.
Segmentation fault
dell@dell-Inspiron-1501:~$ 
`

[parkerlreed]

Why are you running RetroArch with sudo...

[hizzlekizzle]

Yeah, sudo's not recommended. Besides that, that GPU/driver is borderline, with OpenGL 2.1 support only, but it should still work. You could try opening your retroarch.cfg and change the menu_driver from "xmb" to "rgui"...

I don't see any core being loaded there. Does it treat you any better if you try to load a core and content directly from the command line?

[gouchi]

@DellInspirionUser Please close this issue, if you don't reproduce the issue with latest release.

You can get Ubuntu package using this PPA or Snap package.

If you know how to compile, try

git clone https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git
cd RetroArch
./configure && make -$(nproc)

If you still reproduce the issue, please provide some debugging logs.

Thank you.