Please help - How do you get Raspberry Pi out of the rebooting screen and onto the desktop?

Question

I'm using my Raspberry Pi (Model B) and after I used the command startx on the LXTerminal it went straight to graphic interface. I tried to reboot back to my old desktop, but now it was asking for a login that it has never asked before after the initial booting.

I used the default login which is pi:raspberry. Then I used the startx command again in hope of exiting out of it through ctrl+alt+f1. It displayed the error: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/pi/.Xauthority and I think I corrected it. Now I'm trying to make my Raspberry Pi perform autologin by accessing sudo nano /etc/inittab and make 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1 into a comment by putting a pound sign right before it and saving the changes.

Now I have rebooted the pi and it has stayed on a blinking cursor ever since not allowing me to do anything. Any solutions?

Answer 1

sudo raspi-config

In menu:

Boot Options -> Enable Boot to Desktop/Scratch

To add automatic login, in /etc/inittab on tty1 add a line such as:

1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f root tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 # RPICFG_TO_DISABLE

Answer 2

I was able to solve the problem by using the command sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi. This gave access back to the local pi user.