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[Willpiam]

So I've been working on a program for my Pi and needed it to run on boot.
I got it running but even when the program finishes I don't get taken back to the console Or gui or anything. Just a black screen.
I got it running on boot by adding

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@reboot python /home/pi/Desktop/programName.py &

to corntab.

I have a black screen with no curser. I need to get back to the gui so I can fix this thing up. Anyone have any ideas?

[asandford]

Have you tried using ssh to connect with it from another machine?

You can also access tty2 - 6 via ALT-F2 - ALT-F6 (tty0 being the main one).

[Willpiam]

Have you tried using ssh to connect with it from another machine?

You can also access tty2 - 6 via ALT-F2 - ALT-F6 (tty0 being the main one).

I haven't but I'll be looking into it. Unfortunately I have no way to connect it to the web or for that matter even see the IP address it would have. Is it possable connect the Pi straight to my computer through Ethernet?

[Jason_25]

You could always just mount the micro sd card with an adapter in another computer and rename your script temporarily until you get the problem figured out.

[DougieLawson]

You could always just mount the micro sd card with an adapter in another computer and rename your script temporarily until you get the problem figured out.

The easiest rescue system is a Raspberry Pi booted from a freshly download Raspbian (or NOOBS) SDCard with the broken SDCard mounted in a USB reader rather than "another computer".

Everyone who owns a Raspberry Pi should have two SDCards and one USB SDCard reader.

[Willpiam]

You could always just mount the micro sd card with an adapter in another computer and rename your script temporarily until you get the problem figured out.

The easiest rescue system is a Raspberry Pi booted from a freshly download Raspbian (or NOOBS) SDCard with the broken SDCard mounted in a USB reader rather than "another computer".

Everyone who owns a Raspberry Pi should have two SDCards and one USB SDCard reader.

I'll be trying this today. Thanks a lot.