Retropie ssh stopped working.
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Start the system in Safe mode and you'll have root access by default without any password. Change the password for the
piuser, then reboot.
But, if your system has been compromised, I strongly suggest saving your ROMs and configs, then re-image the card and add a strong password for thepiuser. -
Thank you.
Strangely enough looking at the contents of the sd card I don't see any evidence of malware etc. Everything is there as it should be. So I wonder why it won't boot past the splash screen and just sits there with a cursor. -
@raulitob So your system is not booting completely or it's just SSH that's not working anymore ? I'm a bit confused.
If you modified theconfig.txtfile to enter safe mode, then remove theroot=...stanza you added to enter safe mode and start again the system. -
Let me step back a little because yeah its two issues that I think are related. First when I boot the box it shows the retropie splash screen but instead of booting into emulation station it just sits with a cursor blinking. So I decided to ssh into the box to see what happened. When I tried to ssh into the box, which was previous working, it denied my credentials. So I tried to boot into safe mode using these instructions that you posted and unfortunately it did not work. After the splash screen i just get a black screen with a cursor. I tapped enter on my keyboard to see if that would bring it up and it did not.
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This is what my cmdline.txt looks like
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=PARTUUID=5728b712-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait loglevel=3 quiet logo.nologo consoleblank=0 plymouth.enable=0 quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles
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@raulitob Remove the
init=/bin/bashfrom the line and boot again, the system should start normally. -
I almost wonder if it got corrupt due to a power restart.
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@mitu I went ahead and removed that line and reinserted the sd car and still same results, splash screen shows then I just get a blinking cursor. I did notice some text flash really FAST went away just displays a cursor.
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@raulitob It looks like something is corrupted on the sdcard.
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@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 :(
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