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    emulation station not booting after update (goes straight to command prompt)

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    • J
      jsshotts22
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      My brother recently gave me his retropie and after I updated and rebooted the system, it brought me straight to the command prompt without loading emulation station. I felt stupid because it was working fine before I messed around and tried to update it. I have typed "emulationstation" into the command line and hit enter, nothing. I went to change the boot up options as well and nothing works. I am a total NOOB and just want to get this thing working so I can enjoy the games. Is it normal for the console not to load properly after an attempted update? Please help!

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
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        See this topic for an explanation. Because of the update, the auto-login doesn't work. So you just have to explicitly login and then type sudo raspi-config to configure auto-login again. Reboot after the configuration and your RetroPie should start again Emulationstation on boot.

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