steamlink doesn't start - fallback to Ports Menu immediatly

[N30cron]

Pi Model or other hardware: 3
Power Supply used: sufficent
RetroPie Version Used : 4.4
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: Xbox 360 wireless Receiver
Controller used: XBox 360 Controller
Error messages received: none
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log:

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
Parameters:
Executing: xinit /opt/retropie/ports/steamlink/steamlink_xinit.sh -- vt1 -keeptty
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1007: xinit: command not found

Hello Together,

I have an issue starting steamlink. I will get the above mentioned Log in runcommand.log.

I made a clean install of the 4.4 image. Updated the updatescript in retropie-setup and installed the steamlink programm from experimental packages.

Yesterday I made the whole update (incl. Kernel etc.). After this ES won't start and hang on a command prompt (login). So I made everything new today.

I have seriously no idea what I did wrong. As my expierence with Linux systems is really bad, maybe you can ELI5 to me?

Thank you all for your great work.

[mitu]

@N30cron said in steamlink doesn't start - fallback to Ports Menu immediatly:

Yesterday I made the whole update (incl. Kernel etc.). After this ES won't start and hang on a command prompt (login). So I made everything new today.

That's a Raspbian update that disables auto-login. Just login with user pi and password raspberrry and then you can enable again the auto-login by running sudo raspi-config from the terminal - see this page.

For the Steamlink package, well, there's a reason it's experimental. You can wait for the script to be updated to include the xinit dependency. Take a look at this topic for an interim solution, but if you don't have any experience with Linux, just wait for an updated package by watching the Steamlink topic.

[N30cron]

Thank you mitu. That has worked quite well.