Retronas fails to start after install

[Jimbo7136]

Retronas fails to start after install

[sairuk]

what distro is this happening on?

[Jimbo7136]

debian 11

[Jimbo7136]

I installed the package and it's dependencies manually.

Now I am getting: "Failed to select item for /opt/retronas/lib/common.sh:"

[sairuk]

are you running retronas as root/sudo?

[Jimbo7136]

Yes.

[sairuk]

common.sh uses jq to select menu items based from retronas.json i expect we're not finding whatever jq was manually installed

https://github.com/danmons/retronas/blob/c383aa9b1e3f6b9bb5e1b2a63215396ef99d5035/lib/common.sh#L166

[Jimbo7136]

I don't understand why it didn't install to begin with. I tried to use apt but it said the package was not found. I had to go hunt down the individual .deb files for the package and it's dependencies.

Well, okay... Now what?

[sairuk]

need to work out why the debian11 install is broken, how was it installed iso etc? and which one?

[Jimbo7136]

Fresh install from debian website. I had to go to the archive to get a copy of 11, like I said it isn't just right there anymore.

[Jimbo7136]

Re-installing from scratch again, can't select a network mirror. None of them support debian 11.

[Jimbo7136]

Back to square one.

Re-installed from scratch. output of retronas follows:

Config file missing, creating it
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package jq
Press [Enter] to continue...

[Jimbo7136]

Followed instructions from this page: https://github.com/danmons/retronas/wiki/Installing-RetroNAS

as root:
apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt install -y curl
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmons/retronas/main/install_retronas.sh
chmod a+x ./install_retronas.sh
./install_retronas.sh
retronas

[Jimbo7136]

Debian 11 DVD iso was downloaded from here : https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/11.7.0/amd64/iso-dvd/

[Jimbo7136]

Flashed to USB stick using rufus - mbr mode

[Jimbo7136]

To be clear, I've used dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvmen01 (or whatever the drive was to wipe the drive.

Re-installed debian 11 from the dvd link I gave, followed the instructions I listed and got the results I copy/pasted.

[sairuk]

i've just built a VM with 11.7.0 and installed retronas without any issues

# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

i did however use debian-11.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso your issue might be down to an incomplete mirror or sources list

i have tried your DVD now, the apt sources list is incomplete on install, i suggest you try to fix this or use the netinst image

a working sources.list

root@testronas:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.2.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20211218-11:12]/ bullseye main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.2.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20211218-11:12]/ bullseye main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main

# bullseye-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
root@testronas:~# 

this is however an OS issue not a retronas one, so i'm converting to from an issue to a discussion