Autologin on ubuntu-20.04-3.10-minimal

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:03 am

I've read through a bunch of stuff but the other posts all seem to reference lightdm, is there an easy autologin method for a headless, console application? (C0/C1+)

Post by **odroid** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:20 am

Consider using "agetty".
https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/ubunt ... mi_console

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:27 am

odroid wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:20 am
Consider using "agetty".
https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/ubunt ... mi_console

Just did it, thank you. Any tips on autustarting programs in a headless console?

Post by **odroid** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:33 am

Add a full path of your program to rc.local file.
https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/ubunt ... omatically

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:56 am

odroid wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:20 am
Consider using "agetty".
https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/ubunt ... mi_console

It hangs on boot and the blue heartbeat LED quits. No TTY communication either of course..

Post by **odroid** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:59 am

Do you have a serial console via USB-UART bridge for debugging?

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:14 pm

Yes, and my big computer is Linux as well. It doesn't get a connection after that file is created.
The SBC is a C1+

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:48 pm

Sorry, I was mistaken, it seems to be fine. I made a couple changes to boot.ini at the same time, that was the real culprit.

Post by **odroid** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:01 pm

Is the autologin working now?

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:29 pm

odroid wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:01 pm
Is the autologin working now?

Yes Sir, I tried to disable HDMI in boot.ini because everything from this point is serial on this project, it wasn't amused. All is well now.

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:45 pm

I'm trying to autostart pulseaudio and systemD has run me in circles and no longer amuses me so I went to rc.local and it works but it executes the commands without privileges and the daemon fails to start.

I also tried making a bash script to start with rc.local and the script runs just fine from command line but pulseaudio still fails to start when the script is called from rc.local so I tried adding a sleep ## && to get it to start pulseaudio after the bootup was complete but it still fails (I assume because rc.local didn't have privvies when it was called earlier).

Any suggestions to get rc.local to start pulseaudio daemonized?

L67GS · Post by **L67GS** » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:12 pm

My journey to auto start led me many directions until I found bashrc and now it's starting right after login!
Any finding this later that are interested:

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root@odroid:~# nano ~/.bashrc

add your command as you'd type it into a terminal at the end of the file.

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