Emulationstation autostart doesn't work

[piedere]

Hi everyone,

I just installed retropie on a fresh raspbian installation. I then used “sudo service lightdm stop” to stop X. Then started “emulationstation” and configured it to start up at boot.
When rebooting, it did not start emulationstation however, but went straight into X again. Any idea as to what could be wrong?

[herbfargus]

What’s your hardware and software? Raspbian Jessie?

[piedere]

A standard Raspberry Pi2 with the default Raspbian (installed through NOOBS 1.7).

[herbfargus]

Did you do a full binary install? Is there a reason that you aren’t using the premade image (as it is much easier to set up)?

Also In raspi-config in the boot options you can set it to autologin to the console rather than the desktop environment

and then The you can auto-start emulationstation from option 3 of the retropie setup script (I’m assuming this is the step that you already tried?)

[piedere]

You where right. I had to use “sudo raspi-config” to configure Raspbian to start up to console logged in as the “pi” user. Once this is done, the emulationstation setting to autostart works.

Thx and cheers!

[rookervik]

+1, thanks Herb. :D

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