No Login after Update

Help and Support Raspberry Pi
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Today (10.03.2017) I routinely accepted the suggested update of OSMC.

The operating system reports itself as

4.4.27-6 osmc armv61

if querried via ssh, uname -rm, from another linux computer in my local net.

The screen has changed its appearance. It no longer accepts any of my attempts
to log in via my user name. The name is indicated on the welcome screen but the screen
does not react to any keys of my remote control – which it did minutes before.

I am afraid I cannot tell you more on my installation unless you tell me how to ask my
rasperry via ssh: it was a gift which I did not querry.

I am reluctant to skip oscm and Kodi, but updates such as the last one
can have this side effect.

If as a user I may utter one wish, it is: keep it simple, simple, simple: if you change the
appearance, don’t change the functionality. If you change the functionality, don’t change the
appearance.

If you change the appearance, give the user a simple choise to stay with what he is used to.

In the case of the last update: Do not change to a background which makes the foreground
unreadable, no matter how much you like the background. Readability comes first, first, first.

Concerning the earlier versions: distinguish selected items from deselected ones by more
than 1 pixel of brightness, no matter how elegant you find such a small change. Ever and ever again,
I was confused by the reaction of my computer, which reacted differently from my expectations because
I misjudged which item had been selected. Developers, please think of your
unknowing users rather than agreeing to your expert colleges.

Which brings me back to my topic:

How can I pass the unreacting welcome screen “Norbert Letze Anmeldung …”?
It does not react to any keys.

2

SSH into your device and upload logs with grab-logs -A which may give us a chance to see what is your problem

3

The logs are available at

http://paste.osmc.io/bonuxopaqu

As they contained a complaint about a missing package ifupdown I installed it.

However, this did not change my problem that the welcome screen does not respond.

There is a notice about [plugin.video.youtube] which I vaguely remember to have installed
months ago. But I cannot find an error message.

4

I am not really sure what you mean with “welcome screen” anyhow try the following

sudo systemctl stop mediacenter
mv .kodi .kodi_backup
sudo systemctl start mediacenter

5

It’s not required or intended to be installed.

Start-Date: 2016-09-16  01:40:02
Commandline: apt-get upgrade

You should never be running upgrade, ONLY dist-upgrade… This could be contributing to your problem.

Provide a photo? OSMC provides no login screen by default.

6

The advise

helped to localize the problem. Though I did not remove .kodi (it is a directory)
but only renamed it to .kodiold. After restart of the mediacenter I was no longer stuck
by the login screen “Norbert Letzte Anmeldung am …” but was offered the main menu.

Again it was completely irresponsive as long as I tried to move in it with the arrow keys
of my remote control or to go to a higher level by key with a symbol “back”.
However, the key which changes to cursor control worked and using the cursor I could
highlight items and move backwards and forwards in the menu.

This property persisted after I renamed the newly generated .kodi to .kodinew and .kodiold
back to .kodi .

By now, I can move around in the menu with the cursor. With the cursor it is rediculously hard
to select something near the bottom of a scrolling list: it slides away to the middle when you
want to focus it and slides back to the bottom when you follow it moving the cursor up.

From what I have seen of the changed appearance of the menus I have to compliment the
developers: highlighted items differ visibly from deselected ones.

But my problem persists: the arrow keys of my remote control do not work.

It is a gift about which I know nearly nothing.
It is not depicted in the list of remote controls in the setting menu –
as far as I can tell. That is the list which scrolls away whenever I
want to select an item in the lower part.

It shows the name August and has a keyboard on the back.

How do I make the arrow keys of my remote control work again?

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Sorry I misstyped my advice will correct it now.
For the rest of your problem sounds to me that you may just need to reassign the remote buttons. Based on the kind of the remote (IR/RF) there are slight differences but you should find all hints on this forum or over at Kodi.