Custom Script not running at startup despite following guidance...

[stigzler]

@Substring + @lackyluuk
OK. To try and bottom this, I did a totally clean re-install and still not working. Here's my steps:

• Formatted USB3 drive to FAT32 @ 4096 Cluster size (irrelevant as tested on SD card boot only)
• Formatted the 32Gb Samsung SD card with SDCard Formatter
• Installed fresh installation of recalbox + updated to 4.0.2 (higher updates still unavailable)
• wrote a new custom.sh script in nano + placed in share\system
• placed the script fanControl.py in the same directory. CHMod'd them both
• Tested custom.sh via putty - works fine, displays "Launching Fan Control"
• Tested fanControl.py individually via putty. Work as it should.
• Restarted Recalbox. Neither script booted

Hmmm. This is soo frustrating! I thouhgt I'd hit gold with recalbox, as had tried other images to date, but this one stood head and shoulder above the rest. Until I hit this issue that is! And I need an image that can accommodate custom scripts.

Below, my two scripts:

Custom.sh:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Launching FanControl"
python fanControl.py

fanControl.py:

here

(I had to include this as a link as the pasted code caused this forum system to mark my post as Spam! Hopefully pastebin should be OK for you guys trusting links)

That's as much 'out of the box' as I can make.. Any ideas?

[lackyluuk]

@stigzler I really don't know what's wrong.
But if you like you can try exactly what I did in the Wiki Article to have both scripts as .py scripts and use what I wrote in the S32StartFanControl as a subprocess

Just for trying

[Substring]

@stigzler You'd better tweak your custom.sh like :

#!/bin/bash
recallog "Launching FanControl"
/usr/bin/python fanControl.py

This way you'll find "Launching FanControl" in ~/logs/recalbox.log. If you do get the output, then it's a problem with python. Notice I added the full path to python, as I don't know how the $PATH looks like at that moment.

[stigzler]

@lackyluuk - thanks but, as above, tried that already. No joy

[stigzler]

@Substring.
Finally getting somewhere! Did as you directed, and the log reads:

[       16.71] : Starting S92switch
[       16.73] : script /recalbox/scripts/powerswitch.sh [ STARTED ]
[       17.05] : Starting S94manager
Will not start pm2 : system.api.enabled is set to 0
[       17.32] : Launching FanControl

And that's the end of the log at startup. The fan doesn't run, but it does if I run the py script from shell.

Also tried:

/usr/bin/python fanControl.py

from shell - script booted fine.

also added logging after the python call in the bash script. This also logged, indicating the python call didn't crash the bash script?

[       17.07] : Launching FanControl
[       17.17] : fanControl call made.

So - it's looking like python is the culprit? What's next?

[Substring]

@stigzler You must understand that a init script doesn't have tne same environment as a logged in user. That's why I suggested you put the full path to python in the custom.sh. I do mean it

Go on the IRC channel, there is a link in the topbar. Then call me with @substring, and be patient (I'm on CEST timezone)

[Substring]

It was 1am when you tried to poke me lol

[stigzler]

@substring - apologies on there now..

[Substring]

So, there were 2 culprits :

• had to start the .py as multiprocess
• the script tried to open an unexisting logfile : forced the path

[stigzler]

Many thanks @SubString. Actually remoted into my machine and sorted it all for me. What a star!