Start from Launcher fails

[jkiddo]

I'm getting a openvt: exec: No such file or directory when using the launcher to open retropie on my fresh updated vanilla osmc installation

[mcobit]

Maybe a problem with the connection to the ebian repository. Try to start the installation again. Also check if openvt is installed by calling it from commandline via ssh.

[jkiddo]

openvt is installed

`osmc@osmc:~$ openvt -help Usage: openvt [OPTIONS] -- command

This utility help you to start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).

Options: -c, --console=NUM use the given VT number; -e, --exec execute the command, without forking; -f, --force force opening a VT without checking; -l, --login make the command a login shell; -u, --user figure out the owner of the current VT; -s, --switch switch to the new VT; -w, --wait wait for command to complete; -v, --verbose print a message for each action; -V, --version print program version and exit; -h, --help output a brief help message.

` I just tried a reinstall - same error

[jkiddo]

Is there any log that I can grab for you that might lead to something?

[jkiddo]

Calling ~/RetroPie/scripts$ ./retropie.sh gives the following result:

chown: cannot access '/usr/bin/emulationstation': No such file or directory

[mcobit]

In this case, emulationstation did not get built properly. Please activate a swapfile for the installation process. Refer to the forum thread or the other posts here on how to do that.

[mcobit]

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/howto-retropie-and-osmc-retrosmc-retrogaming-on-osmc/6671/1253?u=mcobit

[jkiddo]

OK - added swapfile as rescribed and rebuilt it all ... seems successful so far. However, when trying to start retropie, screen goes black and after a few seconds it returns to osmc

[mcobit]

Can you run the retropie.sh script again from commandline to see if there is any error please.

Also it might be better to have this discussion in the forum.

[jkiddo]

osmc@osmc:~$ ./RetroPie/scripts/retropie.sh osmc@osmc:~$

It returns immediately. But then again, the script starts some stuff in the background and pipes the log towards /dev/null ?

[mcobit]

Try to start emulationstatipn from commandline after shutting down kodi manually.

[jkiddo]

running sudo systemctl stop mediacenter and then emulationstation in the terminal gives no results

[gitpel]

I had the same issue, My problem was that I used ssh root account and then changed session to user by su osmc to run the installation script

But using this way you have different $PATH

a)

ssh root@osmc-tv
su osmc
echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

b)

ssh osmc@osmc-tv
echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/osmc/bin:/opt/vc/bin

The script works only when you have «osmc» user and $PATH from variant «B» Check the «$PATH» in the «osmc» user before use the script or just connect to ssh with «osmc» user