samba write to /opt/retropie/configs/all/

[mitu]

@ParadoxGBB said in samba write to /opt/retropie/configs/all/:

If it'd help things I suppose I could back up and reinstall the image from scratch to confirm if it'd help, but things look pretty consistient to me and it might just impact the 3B 4.6 image.

Only if you want to check again by starting with the default image, otherwise this can be fixed with a simple chown for the configs folder.

[ParadoxGBB]

Sure, I can back up and then confirm with a fresh 4.6 3B image. Could you please confirm the syntax to fix the ownership problem (I'm a relative linux noob). Should it be simply:

sudo chown pi /opt/retropie/configs/all

Or is there more to it for correct permissions?

[mitu]

Should be sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs.

[ParadoxGBB]

Thanks again. The plot thickens...

That works, but on reboot the permissions are set back to root. Now I'm really curious.

[ParadoxGBB]

I think I tracked it down --- fortunately I didn't change a whole ton.

I have a 8Bito lite controller that I was configuring with this 3B, and I configured it via Bluetooth. Things were not reconnecting on boot when I initially tested it, so I switched the "Configure blooth connect mode" to "background". That looks like it messes with permission settings perpetually. When I switched it back to default, the permissions keep.

Thanks again for your help mitu --- it'd be interesting to see if UDb23 also messed around with bluetooth that might have gotten him/her in this state. I suspect if I would have done this on my 4B I would have had the same results.

I'm going to assume that starting from scratch on the image to test the original permission state is no longer really called for at this stage.

[BuZz]

@ParadoxGBB I'll check that. The background mode shouldn't be needed anymore tbh. It was a hack.

[ultranab]

Hello no one can help me please no one answered me
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26182/crash-of-emulationstation

[BuZz]

@ParadoxGBB I can confirm the permissions issue thanks. I'll sort it.

[ParadoxGBB]

@BuZz Thanks everyone -- glad to have helped a bit.

[UDb23]

@BuZz I didn't copy anything on my 4.6 fresh install. Permission issue arose immediately. Of course I should be able to fix with chown.