Silence and Appliance-ify your RetroPie Installation (i.e. Make it Startup and Shutdown Like a Console) **UPDATED FOR RetroPie v4.4.8**

LinuxArcadeGuy

NOTICE!! THESE TWEAKS IN NO WAY HARM THE OPERATION OF YOUR INSTALLATION, THEY ARE JUST COSMETIC TWEAKS TO REMOVE ANNOYING TEXT INFORMATION THAT POPS UP DURING BOOTUP AND SHUTDOWN WHICH WILL BEAUTIFY AND STREAMLINE YOUR RETROPIE PROJECT BE IT CONSOLE OR ARCADE

NOTICE, IT IS ASSUMED THAT YOU ARE USING NOTEPAD++ TO MAKE THESE CHANGES

cmdline.txt tweaks to silence cursor and various screen outputs

take care to only replace the differences, keep anything else.

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet loglevel=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 consoleblank=0 logo.nologo plymouth.enable=0

then add this to config.txt

disable_splash=1
avoid_warnings=1

Stop MOTD and autologin user info from displaying

use command: touch ~/.hushlogin

then

edit /etc/pam.d/login

#hashtag out the following:

session optional pam_lastlog.so

session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic

session optional pam_motd.so noupdate

then

edit /etc/motd delete information inside, may reappear when system updates

Remove linux version info displaying:

edit /etc/issue and delete all text within the file then save.

Remove: raspberrypi login: pi (automatic login)

Change the auto login in systemd (Hides the login message when auto-login happens)

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/autologin@.service

Change ExecStart located at [Service] from:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I $TERM

To:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --skip-login --noclear --noissue --login-options "-f pi" %I $TERM

Tell dmesg to be quiet and silence of the 'watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!' message

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add this before 'exit 0':

#Suppress Kernel Messages
dmesg --console-off

Remove Emulationstation Boot Logo Splash:

add the argument to

opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

--no-splash

place before #auto

i.e. emulationstation --no-splash #auto

Stop shutdown/reboot messages onscreen during shutdown

NOT USING POWERBLOCK OR CONTROL BLOCK:

and /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh

find sudo reboot and sudo poweroff and replace with sudo reboot --no-wall and sudo poweroff --no-wall

USING POWERBLOCK OR CONTROLBLOCK:

edit powerblock or controlblock shutdown script at /etc/controlblockswitchoff.sh or /etc/powerblockswitchoff.sh

find shutdown -h now replace with shutdown -h now --no-wall
(WILL DISAPPEAR IF DRIVER IS UPDATED AND SHUTDOWN/REBOOT MESSAGES WILL REAPPEAR)

Super Kuma 9000 system specific tweaks:
(if driver is updated tweaks will need to be reapplied)

Driver: sudo wget -O - https://goo.gl/22RsN3 | bash

edit opt/kintaro/pcb.py

under def check_powerbutton():

find the line os.system("sudo shutdown -h now") change it to os.system("sudo shutdown -h now --no-wall")
delete the line os.system("killall emulationstation") including the blank space on it's left

under def check_resetbutton()

find the line os.system("sudo reboot") change it to os.system("sudo reboot --no-wall")
delete the line os.system("killall emulationstation") including the blank space on it's left

cnoto

@LinuxArcadeGuy said in Silence and Appliance-ify your RetroPie Installation (i.e. Make it Startup and Shutdown Like a Console) **UPDATED FOR RetroPie v4.4.8**:

/etc/pam.d/login

I followed your steps, but am still seeing the terminal upon safe shutdown of my retroflag script. Any other advice to hide this text upon shutdown?

Thanks

ellohir

I can't help you, I tried to remove the console outputs and after modifying the files it wouldn't boot. This discouraged me from trying it again.

It would be nice if this could be configurable on the GUI to be honest.

esmith13

@cnoto goto command prompt or ssh in and type:

sudo nano /opt/RetroFlag/SafeShutdown.py

find this line:

  os.system("sudo killall emulationstation && sleep 5s && sudo shutdown -h now")

add --no-wall after the word "now", just before the double quotes so it looks like this:

  os.system("sudo killall emulationstation && sleep 5s && sudo shutdown -h now --no-wall")

Ctrl-O to save the changes
Ctrl-X to Exit

Basically you are making the same change as OP showed but to the file that handles RetroFlag's safe shutdown. It will work with all of their cases including the GPi Case.

lesk

How do I know if i'm using a "POWERBLOCK" or "CONTROLBLOCK" ?
I have the Nespi case + with the safeshutdown thing. Is that a powerblock or a controlblock? Or netiher? xD

mitu

@lesk said in Silence and Appliance-ify your RetroPie Installation (i.e. Make it Startup and Shutdown Like a Console) **UPDATED FOR RetroPie v4.4.8**:

Or netiher? xD

Neither. Powerblock/Controlblock - https://blog.petrockblock.com, created by RetroPie's creator @petrockblog.