After ssh login, you can backup the crontab with
If it looks like the offending one, then remove the crontab with
Later you can restore the crontab with
This is "how to disable the crontab".
To be honest, I doubt that the crontab spoils your desktop login...
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 09-17-2018 at 05:11 AM..
Reason: Simplified crontab restore
The crontab is trying to run a graphical application, but it gets run before the desktop is initialised, therefore the app fails. At this point the boot process stops, there is no PATH, there are no os variables, there are no shares, no smb no cifs, no nothing.
This is also the case with ssh, so when I login I have the prompt, but the os is completely dumb. I have to know where every command is on disk, and I don't.
So surely the easiest way around this is to know where the offending crontab file is, nano/vim and sudo. Without Sudo I can't do anything.
The jumper sounds interesting, os is Jessie based, or at least Debian based. I'll look into that now. Thanks.
The crontab is trying to run a graphical application, but it gets run before the desktop is initialised, therefore the app fails. At this point the boot process stops, there is no PATH, there are no os variables, there are no shares, no smb no cifs, no nothing.
This is also the case with ssh, so when I login I have the prompt, but the os is completely dumb. I have to know where every command is on disk, and I don't.
So surely the easiest way around this is to know where the offending crontab file is, nano/vim and sudo. Without Sudo I can't do anything.
The jumper sounds interesting, os is Jessie based, or at least Debian based. I'll look into that now. Thanks.
Try logging in with ssh and typing this into the command prompt
You should then be able to type in the commands without their full path names.
This being a pi, you can remove the micro-SD card and put it in a different computer to edit the crontab and/or login files. Sometimes brute force is the simplest way.
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