Delay startup until vpn is available

[jbreitbart]

Hi,

I would like to delay the startup of the GUI until the connection of my openvpn is completed as I mount the ROMs via samba over the VPN connection. I could not find the service(?) file that starts the GUI to make it depend on openvpn. Can anyone help me out and tell me how it is started?

[mitu]

@jbreitbart It's the autologin service that's responsible for logging in the pi user automatically and starting the ES frontend - take a look at https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/autostart.sh.

[jbreitbart]

Thanks a lot. I ended up modifying /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh and added

    while ! ping -c 1 -n -w 1 10.8.10.1 &> /dev/null
    do
        printf "%c" "."
    done
    sudo mount -t cifs -o user=samba,password="PASSWORD" //10.8.10.1/<path> <path>

[mitu]

@jbreitbart You could also do that in the autostart.sh file, where emulationstation is started. Add it before running ES to make sure the ROM folder is mounted before the frontend is opened.

[BuZz]

@ericdave you should not edit that file but the autostart.sh. the file you edited is not meant to be user editable and will be overwritten.