Segmentation fault when not starting from within ES directory about emulationstation HOT 4 CLOSED

I believe this happens because EmulationStation cannot find its font (as it's found from the current working directory). A fix would be to use a system font - but I don't do this at the moment as fonts and font locations are not really standardized across all distributions. I'll look in to it, though.

Edit: Actually, I think Boost.Filesystem might have a function to get the executable's path, so this might be an easy fix.

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I have included a work around for this issue by generating a bash script durch the execution of RetroPue setup. It takes care for this. I will upload updated script tomorrow after some more testing.

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I think "/usr/share/fonts" is pretty standard font location.
Has you meanwhile fix or workaround for this problem? I can't use Desktop Starter because this error.

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Yep, it'll fall back to something like /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf in the next commit. Unfortunately my RPi's ethernet port stopped working, my laptop is in for repairs, and my desktop just got powered off in the middle of a distribution upgrade. So it might be a while before I can commit. Sorry.

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