Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update)

darkorical

@mitu So I ran into the same issue tonight no matter how many times I tried typing in the username and password it kept saying login failed. I was trying pi and raspberry and I was on a fresh install so I knew nothing had been changed. eventually through these comments I saw the comments about swapped letters. so I typed the password into the username location so I could see what I was actually typing and for some reason unless I was very careful my keyboard was giving 3 p's I played with typing it a few times till I got so I could type it without the typo and even then when I actually tried logging in it took 3 tries. I'm willing to bet just about anything that several of the people in here with the username and password issue are experiencing some form of the same issue. So I might advise having them test type the password in the user slot so they can see what they are actually typing.

mitu

@darkorical Interesting case, that's something that I didn't think about. I say if you're using a keyboard for some time you'd know that it's defective or has a problem, but nevertheless it might be a problem.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

darkorical

@mitu for me it was a brand new keyboard that doesn't seem to have any other issues than that one attempt. not sure what was up with it but it is working fine now

pplatinumss

setup a new system, new installer from the website, first update on retropie and login requested after reboot/.
(i had ssh setup before hand luckily, as this system is hard to get in from on with a keyboard!)

superdude77

I turned my Pi on last night for the first time in a couple of months and had this login problem. Set the Pi to update then on reboot it started asking for login creds. I definitely hadn't changed them, checked the saved password in my ftp client to make sure.

In the end I ended up reading the 'Shadow' file from my Windows laptop and resetting the hash the the Pi user account back to 'raspberry' as per a comment in this post https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8771/i-think-ive-deleted-the-default-pi-user

Snoman_

OK listen I just updated my retropi and it says...
Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 retropie ttyl
retropie login:
password:
BUT listen it WILL NOT let me type in the password area, so how the hell do i get back in...I just wanna play some games. And i you cant access the config or type any commands in its just that. So what the hell do i do.

Snoman_

pls someone help, honestly now im just getting frusterate

mitu

@Snoman_ The password is not echoed to the screen, like on the Windows login screen. You just type it and press Enter to log in.

Snoman_

ok ill try it

DKarn

@Sano I am putting a comment here because this is the BEST way to remove the login password and I keep loosing it. BTW what I have found is that the options that I have been find that options that are suggested remove the text from the boot but not the password. now I can just look under my past comments

cms3717

I got it! i Googled the password for the image Im working with in this case Use: pi Pass' supreme2019 and it worked:)

BuZz

@cms3717 you're on the wrong forum then. That software has nothing to do with us, apart from they used our code as a base.

Marvos

I just turned on my retropie and had this issue. I typed the login and password suggested and worked.
I was wondering if that is going to happen every time I turn my retropie on, if so how can I skip that without the login/password?
Thank guys very helpfull!

mitu

@Marvos The answer is in the 1st page of this topic - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18591/asking-for-retropie-login-on-boot-after-update/13. Or, the Docs.

shura-3275

Hello,
I have the same problem, I cannot enter the login and password.
every time he tells me incorrect login ....
how do you get into sudo-config ??
"at command prompt, type sudo raspi-config
select option 3 in menu (Boot Options)
select option B1 (Desktopp/CLI)
select option B2 (Console Autologin)"
thanks

mitu

@shura-3275 said in Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update):

I have the same problem, I cannot enter the login and password.

What user/password are you typing ? Maybe you changed the default password ?

shura-3275

@mitu hello,
just pi and Raspberry
I am a beginner, and I have just created my retropie.
I did my installation, put the roms, bios and I wanted to do an update and it happened this at launch.
I am blocked at login
I could redo everything from the start but I would prefer to find the solution to restart from the login request

windg

@shura-3275

The default password is raspberry, not Raspberry.

shura-3275

@windg excuse me I made a typo in my post.
I wrote well in raspberry in retropie

mitu

@shura-3275 said in Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update):

I wrote well in raspberry in retropie

The default RetroPie image has user pi and password raspberry. If you used that image to install and didn't change the password yourself (recommended), then the credentials should work. If they don't, then we can't help you - you either changed your default password or not using the RetroPie image.