@Tim-s-up said in Cascade of issues with my new arcade built:

Thanks Mitu. Noted for the 3rd party images, but I my questions are more Retropie in general I think.

I understand; start with the base RetroPie installation and if you still get those errors, come back and post in this topic.

Have you logged into the pi with this IP address before? Make sure you have the right IP address of the Pi.

Have you accessed any of the ssh config files recently? I've done this and made a typo rendering the configuration useless.

To find the ip address in four ways. With a keyboard plugged into the pi, press F4 and use the CLI to type in ifconfig you'll want to use the inet address of either the wlan0 or eth0 interface.

There is a menu option in emulationstation that will give the ip address most of the time.

And with windows you could type arp -a to check the arp cache for the address it will be one of the dynamic addresses of the associated interface.

Of course you want to make sure that it is connected, with ethernet you will know. With a router I guess you could log in to the router and check the ip address there.

You should start with ssh, when you get the right address I'll help with winscp.

thank you. it's ok.

I can connect to ubuntu with the IP and my passeword in Winscp. not need a IP in Retropie.

@mitu So I'm guessing I need to do a whole new install of retropie and emulation station then?
Thats what I was trying to avoid :(

I managed to change the serting of the pi to reserved ip and had no issiues "yet" if it returns ill let you guys know, i still connect to winscp via the username, if the issue returns ill use the ip of the pi on winscp as the username to see what happens...

@mitu in this case he got the message because he deleted known_hosts on our recommendation.

@jonnykesh
thanks for the extract. Since I can't copy - i went thru it line by line and could not find any differences. I thought maybe I added a character somewhere and this is what i needed to validate.

I really appreciate your help. if you (or anyone) has any other ideas, I am willing to try!

@Muffy https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh