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    [HELP] After Retropie Update I cannot login

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      Retroboii
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      After updating it became required to login.
      I know the user name is pi and password is raspberry.
      It doesnt work as it says that the login is incorrect.
      I know the layout of the keyboard is changed to the uk one so I typed raspberry in the username to check that I type it correctly.
      I didnt use this raspberry for a long time but I knwo that the password and username are the same as I used them yesterday to connect to my raspberry via wifi.
      I know there was a similar thread I read it and it was useless please do not link it in comments.
      Please help :(

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        This is detailed in the Troubleshooting FAQ here.

        If the pi/raspberry user/pass don't work, then maybe you've changed it at some point ? RetroPie's PI image uses the default Raspbian credentials.

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          Retroboii @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu well even though I cant login on my raspberry. It still connect to to wifi meaning I can connect to it with \RETROPIE.
          with the username being pi and password being raspberry.
          Which means they are still the default ones am I correct?
          I might have an idea how to do this which is to connect to retropie via ssh and remove the auto login option but to do that I need the retropie's IP adress but I cant get it as I cant login ... any idea??

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @Retroboii
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            @Retroboii You can check out the IP address from the RetroPie system, in EmulationStation - it's one of the entries there.

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              Retroboii @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu well I cant do that as I cant get past the login .. I still get login incorrect. Do have an idea of what I should do been researching for almost wo hours :(

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Retroboii
                last edited by mitu

                @Retroboii said in [HELP] After Retropie Update I cannot login:

                well I cant do that as I cant get past the login

                Oh yeah, forgot that. But why do you need the IP - just use retropie as the hostname when starting the SSH session. Or maybe visit your WiFi router's administration page to see what devices are connected to it.

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                  Retroboii
                  last edited by

                  because I saw a youtube tutorial telling you to do so.
                  How do I connect to it without IP exactly?
                  The tutorial said to use putty and input the Ip adress which Im still looking for and then putting in your login and password.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @Retroboii
                    last edited by

                    @Retroboii https://retropie.org.uk/docs/SSH/

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                      Retroboii @mitu
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                      @mitu I need to first enabkle SSH it says there are 2 ways either by
                      re-boot. From a system with an SD-card reader, access the /boot/ directory and create an empty file called ssh.
                      they dont say what type of file it needs to be (txt, DTB ?)or by using sudo raspconfig but I cant login so it wont be possible
                      This is the correct directory rigt and what type should the file be
                      Retropie.png image url)

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @Retroboii
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                        @Retroboii said in [HELP] After Retropie Update I cannot login:

                        they dont say what type of file it needs to be (txt, DTB ?)

                        How about no type ? You can create a file with no extension or you can add a .txt extension to the file (ssh.txt).

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