[solved] raspi-config does not respond

[jm_raspberries]

Hi,


this is my first raspberry.

I have no screen cable, I intend to use it over ssh.

No problem for the ssh connection : everything ok.

but

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sudo raspi-config

does not work. It just does not respond :

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo raspi-config
pi@raspberrypi:~$ 

I do not get any interface. So how do I configure my raspeberry ? I want first to expand the available memory, then create a separate /home.


Thanks

[elatllat]

It's just a text file, so find it;
man which
and look inside for the commands you want... or just google...firts hit looks close to what I use;
viewtopic.php?f=51&t=45265

[B.Goode]

Odd!

What Operating System is installed and running on your RPi?

Is it the 'official' released version of raspi-config that is being invoked?

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo which raspi-config
/usr/bin/raspi-config

I have successfully run raspi-config from the shell prompt via an ssh login on both Raspbian Wheezy and Raspbian Jessie - it is just a collection of shell scripts that uses the whiptail utility to provide a character-based 'gui'.

[jojopi]

raspi-config uses whiptail to draw its dialogue boxes. It will fail silently if whiptail is not installed or rejects your terminal settings.

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pi@tau ~ $ TERM=dumb sudo raspi-config
pi@tau ~ $ 

Running whiptail directly may give a better diagnostic.

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pi@tau ~ $ whiptail --yesno question 10 40

[jm_raspberries]

Problem solved.

For the record, I give some usefull data below

Odd!
What Operating System is installed and running on your RPi?
Is it the 'official' released version of raspi-config that is being invoked?

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo which raspi-config
/usr/bin/raspi-config

I have successfully run raspi-config from the shell prompt via an ssh login on both Raspbian Wheezy and Raspbian Jessie - it is just a collection of shell scripts that uses the whiptail utility to provide a character-based 'gui'.

Thanks B.Goode
1. It's the fully 100% officially-from-the-original-site downloaded and sha1sum tested and uptodate raspbian version.
2. yes, raspi-config is here

raspi-config uses whiptail to draw its dialogue boxes. It will fail silently if whiptail is not installed or rejects your terminal settings.

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pi@tau ~ $ TERM=dumb sudo raspi-config
pi@tau ~ $ 

Running whiptail directly may give a better diagnostic.

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pi@tau ~ $ whiptail --yesno question 10 40

Thanks jojopi . That's it : I was trying to run raspi-config from within emacs/eshell , and this does not work (why ?? ). I run it from a normal terminal and this is ok now.