How is EmulationStation launched at boot?

vmonteco

I just made an installation with my new RPI4 and everything worked fine.

But I also did a few actions in order to administrate my RPI a bit ( including enabling SSH, installing desktop environments (including Pixel), installing an alternate shell).

But on reboot, EmulationStation isn't launched automatically anymore.
I have no problem to log into my CLI (it's still automatically done anyway) and I have no problem launching ES manually from the terminal. I also ensured auto-login on terminal boot-mode is enabled.

So I'm trying to understand how the EmulationStation automatic launch is usually triggered.

Is there a service?

Regards,

$ uname -a
Linux retropie 5.4.79-v7l+ #1373 SMP Mon Nov 23 13:27:40 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

mitu

EmulationStation is launched from /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh. I guess changing your shell disabled loading that file on login.

vmonteco

@mitu said in How is EmulationStation launched at boot?:

EmulationStation is launched from /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh. I guess changing your shell disabled loading that file on login.

I don't get why but I don't have such file in this directory.

root@retropie:/etc/profile.d# ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 déc.  15 19:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 129 root root 12288 déc.  19 19:50 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    95 avril 29  2019 at-dbus-fix.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   664 mars   1  2019 bash_completion.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1042 oct.  27  2018 debian-mate-default-settings_gtk-accessibility.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   324 févr. 20  2020 sshpwd.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1945 déc.  28  2018 vte-2.91.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   450 juil. 22  2019 wifi-check.sh

To what shell is it supposed to be related? I ensured to set back the default shell to /bin/bash for my users (both pi and root).

mitu

@vmonteco said in How is EmulationStation launched at boot?:

To what shell is it supposed to be related? I ensured to set back the default shell to /bin/bash for my users (both pi and root).

It's meant to be running in Bash - could work with other shells, but it's untested. If you don't have the file, then make sure you've configured autostart and enabled EmulationStation on boot.