Chromium autostart fails to launch

[AYapejian]

Creating a bug report/issue:

Required Information:

• DietPi Version:

root@pi-display:~# cat /DietPi/dietpi/.version
6
7

• SBC: RPi 3
• PSU: 5v 3a noname
• SD Card: Sandisk evo 32gb
• uname:

root@pi-display:~# uname -a
Linux pi-display 4.14.34-v7+ #1110 SMP Mon Apr 16 15:18:51 BST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

Additional Information (if applicable):

• Software title: Chroumium
• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? Yes with Autostart set to Chromium

Expected behaviour:

Chromium should autostart

Actual behaviour:

X starts and crashes

Steps to reproduce:

Install Chromium and set to autostart, reboot

Did you submit a dietpi-bugreport?

No

Extra details:

Issue seems to be that the /Dietpi/dietpi/login calls xinit chromium however the bin is chromium-browser

My Fix

Really just need to rename the binary in the login script I believe but some of these switches / notes may be helpful to others.

• touch /root/start-chrome.sh
• chmod +x /root/start-chrome.sh
• Add contents to file and save:

#!/bin/sh
# If using the 7" Pi LCD set below in /DietPi/config.txt
#    framebuffer_width=1024
#    framebuffer_height=614
# 	 gpu_mem_256=128
# 	 gpu_mem_512=128
# 	 gpu_mem_1024=128

# Command line switches https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
# 	--test-type gets rid of some of the chromium warnings that you may or may not care about in kiosk on a LAN
#   --pull-to-refresh=1 
#   --ash-host-window-bounds="400,300"

url=${CHROMIUM_URL:-"http://URL_IF_NOT_SET"}
chromium_opts="--kiosk --test-type --force-tablet-mode"
xinit /usr/bin/chromium-browser ${chromium_opts} ${url}

# Change /DietPi/dietpi/login
# `xinit chromium` to `/root/start-chrome.sh`

• Run with /root/start-chrome.sh and/or replace xinit chromium with /root/start-chrome.sh in /Dietpi/dietpi/login ( NOTE: New to dietpi, I'm guessing this would get overwritten during updates though )

[symbios24]

try the sh start-chrome.sh

[Fourdee]

@AYapejian

Many thanks for the report and fix👍

We'll try to replicate.

[Fourdee]

Confirmed.

Notes:

• 🈯️ We can also remove the pre-req for desktop install.
• 🈯️ We'll implement auto GPU mem split increase in dietpi-software during Chromium install.
• 🈯️ We'll also implement a startup bash script for Kiosk and additional options, based on @AYapejian
• 🈯️ Default set to 720P can be adjusted in script | Also need to resolve: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1137 (still exists as an issue)

[Fourdee]

Completed, thanks again @AYapejian 👍