Retropie sudoers issue

trippy86

Hi all

Last night I took ownership of the main retropie splash screen folder so I could add my own, splash screen folder on usb wouldn't work at all.

My splash screen working fine now but I can't go into any of the settings or options in the retropie, I get this error

sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers souces found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Any help would much appreciated

Thx
Trippy

HurricaneFan

@trippy86 I'm not sure what user did 1000 is, what command did you run to change ownership of the splash screen folder?

Most likely you are going to have to run a chown command to get that file owned by root again.

Can you run this command and provide the output?

ls -l /etc/sudoers

trippy86

Tnx for the reply

-r--r----- 1 pi root 669 Jun 5 2017 /etc/sudoers

mitu

It looks like you mis-typed your chown command and you actually took ownership of your /etc folder also. sudo will not work because of that - as you have noticed.
If you have an additional Linux installation you can read and fix the ownership of that file by reading the sdcard directly. If not, then you should boot the Pi in 'safe-mode' and fix the ownership of the file - https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/61638/how-do-i-start-up-in-safemode.

trippy86

@mitu

Great thanks I'll do that, o ce I'm in safe mode what do I actually do to fix the ownership

mitu

@trippy86 Once you re-mount the / to be read/write (see the post I mentioned) execute chown root:root /etc/sudoers and then reboot. That will take care of the sudo problem.

trippy86

Lol I can't even figure out how to get into safe mode. I'm very new at this so my apologies

trippy86

You mentioned another linux os. I've got a noobs sd card. Would it be easier to just install the raspbian and correct the file that way?

mitu

I think it's safer to re-install. You can save your ROMs and configurations - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#making-a-backup-option-2 - if you're still able to access RetroPie over file shares.

trippy86

Ok i took your advice and started over

But I'm back where I had the issue with my own splash screens

How can I safely and correctly move my own splash screens into the main retropie splash screen folder without causing the issue i had before

Many thanks

HurricaneFan

@trippy86 What tool are you using to copy the splashcreens over with?

HurricaneFan

@trippy86 You should be able to sftp the files to /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens without needing any special permissions.

trippy86

@hurricanefan

I'm using winSCP to transfer them

I have no issues copying to home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens

But they never load and goes straight to the emulation station loading screen. I've messed with all settings, trying to select one and randomize list result the same way. But if i use a default retropie splash screen it works work fine

trippy86

I've already got them to work previously by copying them to the main file system and it worked perfectly, but I messed something up (see OP)

Just want to avoid it this time lol

Thx

HurricaneFan

@trippy86 You have to pick them from the Splashscreen menu. You don't need to alter any file permissions.

More info about the menu:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Splashscreen/

trippy86

@trippy86

Solved my issue. Set root password to raspberry and logged in ssh using login as root

Thx for the help guys

trippy86

@hurricanefan

Trust me I tried all of that, wouldn't work at all. Worked fine for me before retropie was updated but not since. I've put them in the splashscreens folder in supplementary and works perfectly now