runcommand blinking cursor (no launch menu)

dildo_baggins

just now..i have made a donation to retropie. thank you to you guys again for all your hard work.

can we end this now?

BuZz

I just updated my dev machine, and during the updates it notified me about the plymouth changes and how to disable (related to the Raspbian bootsplash). It mentioned a disable config for it or removing the plymouth package, but you can try adding plymouth.enable=0 to the cmdline.txt to see if that makes a difference (it may not). I've not yet tried it.

(Note - me looking into this is unrelated to the donation :) - I was looking into it as you posted - but thanks also.)

dildo_baggins

@BuZz said in runcommand blinking cursor (no launch menu):

plymouth.enable=0

that did it!

heres my working /boot/cmdlline.txt on my test box! (ON ONE LINE...)
wc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo consoleblank=0 plymouth.enable=0

BuZz

from /usr/share/doc/plymouth/NEWS.Debian.gz which was displayed on upgrade.

plymouth (0.9.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  Starting with this version, installing the plymouth package will
  automatically enable plymouth I/O multiplexing functionality. This is needed
  if you are using an event-based init system. The bootup messages will still be
  displayed as usual.

  If you don't want this functionality, you could either uninstall the
  plymouth package or pass "plymouth.enable=0" to the kernel cmdline.
  On the other hand if you want a fancy boot screen, you explicitly need to
  pass "splash" to the kernel cmdline as before.

 -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:54:08 +0200

sc0tt88

I'm having this problem too but I can't edit my cmdline.txt?

BuZz

@sc0tt88 Start a new topic - after reading https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

sc0tt88

A new topic with the exact same issue? I cannot get to the console to so that I can add plymouth.enable=0 to cmdline.txt which I assume will also fix the issue for me. Is there another way to do it?

sc0tt88

Ok plugging in the SD card to my computer let me edit the file. Fixed!

BuZz

@sc0tt88 said in runcommand blinking cursor (no launch menu):

A new topic with the exact same issue? I cannot get to the console to so that I can add plymouth.enable=0 to cmdline.txt which I assume will also fix the issue for me. Is there another way to do it.

Yes - especially if the topic is old. Oherwise threads get messy. Also the cause could be different. If you update RetroPie-Setup it adds the line for you.

sc0tt88

It didn't.

BuZz

@sc0tt88 said in runcommand blinking cursor (no launch menu):

It didn't.

Well it should - but without any details from you I cannot advise (eg versions, and also if you are using a splashscreen)