Hi
I just installed diet pi LXDE on my rp4b 8gb
And my machine booted but then the next thing I did was Google the commands to make sure everything is fully updated and after it was all completed it asked me to reboot and afterwards it stopped booting and gave me the option of loading pi launcher to install software?
I am new I have been searching if anyone else has had other issues and can’t seem to find the solution.
Does anyone know what I’ve done ? How I can fix it ? I haven’t touched anything else other than terminal after fresh install.
can you share a picture of the message?
What exactly you have done? Which commands did you execute?
I used a bunch of them , at present I’m not currently with my pi but will post as soon as I’m able to but here’s the ones I put through because I thought based on the forums it’s what I needed to do.
# apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt list --upgradable
apt upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot
Thanks for your reply!
usually on a new fresh install, system should be up-to-date already 
Anyway let’s check the message you see during reboot
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I just updated but now I’m not sure how to launch it
What exactly you like to start? You are with the standard command line now.
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I want it to automatically boot up to the OS instead of this screen , I can’t seem to get back to what I had before I rebooted it.
You are on the OS. This is the regular command line of a Linux based system. This is the shell. Therefore my question, what are you trying to launch? Are you looking for a desktop application?
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Yeah sorry I’m trying to get to the desktop, and for some reason one upgrade doesn’t want to work
The update is working and has nothing to do with the desktop you are looking for. Just one package has been put on hold. Usually it should have been set to unhold already. Anyway, try
apt-mark unhold rpi-eeprom
apt update
apt upgrade
To get the desktop try
sudo startx
Or to get it on reboot automatically, select the appropriate entry from
dietpi-autostart
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Wow it worked !!! Thanks , I’m not sure if this is for concern ?
I reboot it again and this endless cycle screen I can’t avoid
What do you select as autostart option? Connect via SSH and select desktop for autostart.
As far as I know I only selected auto start desktop and then exited and then got it to boot but then as I rebooted , it loads this text that keeps changing and you can type but as soon as the text changes it deletes what you write and if you were to complete the text commands it won’t process anything.
Every time I turn power off it keeps coming back to this screen 
So does this screen mean ssh?
Well it seems you selected DietPi-CloudShell instead of a Desktops option-
can you try to cancel using ctrl c or similar? As an alternative, get a SSH client like putty on your windows desktop and try to connect via SSH. This way you should be able to adjust autostart setting.
Which is the entry I need to change ??
Just got putty working
Wow it boots and I think I did something now it automatically asks for login at boot of desktop which is a little inconvenient is there a way to easily stop this at terminal?
Now I don’t seem to have my CPU speed over clocked by the Dietpi os to 1.8 for my 4b is that not possible on this ? Simple update? Or just have to follow a tutorial for overclocking
Thanks you’ve been so helpful I really appreciate your patience with me being new and I am so grateful people like you exist , world truly is a better place because of people like you.
If you like to automatically login to desktop, simply choose autostart option 2.
Can be changed as follow
dietpi-config > 3 : Performance Options > CPU Governor or CPU limits
BTW: does the issue with dbus-launch still exists?
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