Issue. No GUI after reboot

Maarten_Boerma · January 26, 2019, 2:51pm

The Ropieee used to work, but now after a reboot I get no GUI anymore.

aa10a0b907b9f873 Is the feedback I sent. Thanks.

spockfish · January 27, 2019, 9:35am

Hi @Maarten_Boerma,

It seems that the service for the UI is not started anymore…

2 options: either reflash or I guide you through a few commands to be run over SSH. Are you familiar with SSH?

Thanks,

Maarten_Boerma · January 27, 2019, 10:07am

Hi spockfish, yes i’m familiar with ssh and the command line. I already connect to SSH. Thanks for your help.

Maarten_Boerma · January 29, 2019, 7:12pm

Hi, could you please tell me the terminal commands? Or can I find them somewhere else? Thanks a lot.

Binky · January 30, 2019, 2:42pm

I had the same problen after an upgrade yesterday… these commands sorted my Ropieee out

Maarten_Boerma · January 30, 2019, 3:42pm

Thanks, Binky.

Did not fix it for me. This was the command line return:

:: Synchronizing package databases…
ropieee-stable is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
alarm is up to date
warning: ropieee-web-20181211-1 is up to date – reinstalling
error: target not found: systemctl
error: target not found: enable
warning: skipping target: ropieee-web

Maarten_Boerma · January 30, 2019, 3:49pm

I see what I did wrong those are two separate commands:

pacman -Syu ropieee-web
enable ropieee-web

But that didn’t help either. It is not the web part that is not starting, it is the GUI on the LCD for the Pi.

Binky · January 30, 2019, 5:34pm

My mistake… the only GUI I have access to with Ropiee is the web UI, so I hope Harry @spockfish will be along to sort you out

Maarten_Boerma · January 30, 2019, 5:55pm

Thanks. I will be something similar.

spockfish · January 30, 2019, 5:58pm

Sorry @Maarten_Boerma,

I got ill over the past few days.

You need to login and run the following commands:

pacman -Syu ropieee-touchui
systemctl enable ropieee-touchui

After that you should reboot. But please show me the output of these commands.

Thanks,

Maarten_Boerma · January 30, 2019, 6:10pm

Thanks, Harry. I hope you feel better now! I’m very happy with all you do.

Binky · January 30, 2019, 7:45pm

Hope you’re feeling better
… and I was going to type more to this message but I clicked Reply accidentally

Thanks for that… hopefully I will remember but that’s not guaranteed
At least I managed to get it onto two lines when copying the commands

spockfish · January 30, 2019, 7:52pm

Did it work?

Maarten_Boerma · January 30, 2019, 9:28pm

I’ve not tried yet. I’m traveling at the moment. I will let you know. Thanks.

Maarten_Boerma · February 3, 2019, 9:51am

@spockfish Nope. These are the errors I get (first part is a quote from the update command response):

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ropieee-touchui: /etc/systemd/system/ropieee-touchui.service exists in filesystem
ropieee-touchui: /opt/RoPieee/touch/ropieee-touchui exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@ropieelcd ~]# systemctl enable ropieee-touchui
Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/ropieee-touchui.service is masked.

spockfish · February 3, 2019, 10:25am

Ok that’s weird.

Try this:

pacman -R ropieee-touchui
pacman -Syu ropieee-touchui

Maarten_Boerma · February 3, 2019, 10:44am

the first command, uninstall, worked. The install failed:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ropieee-touchui: /etc/systemd/system/ropieee-touchui.service exists in filesystem
ropieee-touchui: /opt/RoPieee/touch/ropieee-touchui exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Maybe we need to manually remove them?

spockfish · February 3, 2019, 10:50am

yes. remove the package, remove those 2 files and install it.

Maarten_Boerma · February 3, 2019, 10:54am

I did. Reinstalled the touchui package enabled the systemctl and rebooted.

Thanks.