I recently purchased a Zynthian V5.1 and building it went swimmingly.
However, I can’t get it to boot to the actual interface, or get into the webUI unless I manually start zythian_webconf.py or zynthian_webconf.sh. When I manually start zynthian.sh too it loads the splash screen but gets stuck on that until I cancel the process.
Looking through the logs with journalctl, it looks like there are many systemd units not starting up due to bad unit file settings.
Hello @ArcticSin and welcome. What brand and size of SD Card are you using? I would suggest not going above 64 GB and using SanDisk or Samsung, and using Raspberry Pi imager.
You could try opening the case and putting the SD Card directly in the RPi for troubleshooting purposes.
Here’s a thread about SD Cards that may provide some good info and tips:
It’s a Sandisk Extreme Pro 32gb, and was flashed using rpi-imager on my Steam Deck. I will try putting it directly into the RPi and let you know what happens.
Sounds good. I would recommend rewriting a fresh image to the sd card before retrying the boot. Because Zynthian tries to figure out what kind of hardware it is running on and saves that info on the sd card, so if you fix a hardware issue you can still get bad results if you don’t re-flash the image. It can be quite confusing. I would also suggest trying a different brand or type of card.
First boot can take a few minutes sitting at splash screen!