Can't access Lakka command prompt

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hello everyone,

I have installed Lakka onto a USB stick (most recent distribution) and want to use it live on my PC. Since the audio is not working, I wanted to access the command prompt to resolve the issue as described here, but I found that none of my approaches to even get this far were working:

I pressed tab in the bootloader menu and entered “tty retroarch=0” (with or without preceeding whitespace, also tried deleting the given output before), but none of it worked. I tried entering “systemctl stop retroarch” (see here), but none happened. In both cases, either the retroarch surface was loaded, or the system froze after I pressed ctrl+alt+f3 to call the command prompt. Further, I tried to directly enter the command “aplay -L”, but the line just disappeared without any visible result.

I entered any of the above mentioned commands manually into the syslinux.cfg file, but this did not change the outcome. Lakka behaved as if I never touched the file. I tried reinstalling Lakka multiple times (since I somewhere read something about corrupt file systems), but (well, take a guess why I’m here…).

So, does anyone have a clue as to what to do next? Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas :slight_smile:

#2

Did you try to connect to Lakka by ssh ?

#3

I tried to, but I couldn’t figure out how. I assigned my usb stick to a virtual network drive, but I have no idea how to find out it’s IP adress. I used some of the LAN IP Scanners out there, but none helped. Connecting to the network drive via its host name using putty didn’t work either (host not found). Any further ideas, especially as to why direct access doesn’t work?

#4

Have you tried this scanner? https://github.com/libretro/Lakka/wiki/Finding-the-IP-of-your-Lakka-box

#5

Yes. I did the following:

  1. Set up Lakka on a usb stick as described in the installation instructions.
  2. Set network accessability and assigned it to a network drive.
  3. Used the IP scanner in the given link to scan ip ranges from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 on port 22 for SSH, found no active ips.

I guess I must be doing something fundamentally wrong, as I appear to be the only one experiencing this problem.

#6

Or maybe during the installation process you told the installer to not setup ssh?

#7

I used Win32DiskImager to install the given prebuilt image for 64 Bit CPUs:

http://www.lakka.tv/get/windows/generic/install/

Hence I never came across any opportunity to explicitly not install any SSH support.

#8

It may be necessary to add ssh to the kernel boot command line - I wrote about it in this post: http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4404&p=31541&viewfull=1#post31541

As for determining the network address, Lakka runs Avahi (zeroconf) by default. Provided ssh is enabled, you should be able to access your Lakka system using literally “lakka.local” (without quotes).


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