Re: build error pandaboard on master

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-07-30 12:49, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 01:16 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-07-30 11:09, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>> On 07/30/2012 12:57 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2012-07-30 10:50, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>>> On 07/30/2012 10:21 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> On 2012-07-30 08:11, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>>> On 07/30/2012 09:56 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2012-07-30 07:48, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 07/30/2012 09:15 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2012-07-30 06:53, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm on master branch trying to build core-image-minimal for the machine "pandaboard". Besides the basics, I put in a license statement for cloud9 into local.conf.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> My bblayer.conf is as follows:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> # LAYER_CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/bblayers.conf
>>>>>>>>>>> # changes incompatibly
>>>>>>>>>>> LCONF_VERSION = "5"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"
>>>>>>>>>>> BBFILES ?= ""
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> BBLAYERS ?= " \
>>>>>>>>>>>    /home/jim/poky/meta \
>>>>>>>>>>>    /home/jim/poky/meta-yocto \
>>>>>>>>>>>    /home/jim/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
>>>>>>>>>>>    /home/jim/meta-ti \
>>>>>>>>>>>    "
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The error I'm getting is:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR: ParseError at /home/jim/meta-ti/recipes-misc/payload/bonescript.bb:5: Could not inherit file classes/systemd.bbclass
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Build Configuration:
>>>>>>>>>>> BB_VERSION        = "1.15.3"
>>>>>>>>>>> TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
>>>>>>>>>>> TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
>>>>>>>>>>> MACHINE           = "pandaboard"
>>>>>>>>>>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>>>>>>>>>>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.2+snapshot-20120730"
>>>>>>>>>>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon cortexa9"
>>>>>>>>>>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>>>>>>>>>>> meta
>>>>>>>>>>> meta-yocto        = "master:7411158e1f980cd71c432026fa2f68ab80e3541e"
>>>>>>>>>>> meta-oe           = "master:9afc488a1b97bfc5378f139ba04a7a5297b15fdb"
>>>>>>>>>>> meta-ti           = "master:9bc77dff5f84578e259f8225bfa0656d94a2a60a"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'pseudo-native'
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Try adding this in local.conf:
>>>>>>>>>>   BBMASK ?= ".*/meta-ti/recipes-(misc|bsp/formfactor)/"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BBMASK by itself didn't solve my particular problem. I'll try the other suggestions and report back.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What other problem do you have?  That BBMASK should keep bitbake from
>>>>>>>> trying to parse the recipe mentioned above.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Note: I use these layers with Yocto all the time with that mask...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I just used the statement:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BBMASK ?= ".*/meta-ti/recipes-(misc|bsp/formfactor)/"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got the same error as my original post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only way you could get that same error is if you already have a BBMASK
>>>>>> statement somewhere and this one is being ignored because of the ?= assignment.
>>>>>>
>>>>> So I started with a clean build again. This time I only added the BBMASK statement you suggested.  I got the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR: No recipes available for:
>>>>> /home/jim/meta-openembedded/meta-systemd/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gdm/gdm_2.32.2.bbappend
>>>>> /home/jim/meta-openembedded/meta-systemd/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/elsa_svn.bbappend
>>>>> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing the BBMASK needs to call out meta-openembedded/meta-systemd/meta-gnome and meta-efl?
>>>>
>>>> Or don't include those layers - meta-systemd isn't needed by your yocto build.
>>>>
>>> Thanks, that makes more sense now.  I removed the layer meta-systemd from bblayers.conf and used the
>>>
>>> BBMASK ?= ".*/meta-ti/recipes-(misc|bsp/formfactor)/"
>>>
>>> statement in local.conf to solves the problem.
>>>
>>> What is really causing the problem?  Without it dependencies on meta-systemd are there, but the mask removes that??  Why can you remove a dependency?
>>
>> The dependency on systemd comes from this recipe: meta-ti/recipes-misc/payload/bonescript.bb
>> The BBMASK is making bitbake ignore that recipe (you don't need it), hence no dependency.
>>
> I got core-image-minimal built without errors, Thanks, now I need to ask some questions about booting that image.  I'm assuming that I can follow the instructions on pandaboard.org
> for creating the SD card format and just copy the deploy/image/ u-boot, MLO, uImage, and rootfs to the right places and boot the sdcard in the pandaboard. Anyway, that's what I
> tried.  I'm connected to the panadboard via serial port and the U-Boot works and the uImage seems to be found, but I don't get a login console on the serial port:
>
> U-Boot SPL 2011.12-dirty (Jul 30 2012 - 13:44:03)
> Texas Instruments OMAP4430 ES2.1
> OMAP SD/MMC: 0
> reading u-boot.img
> reading u-boot.img
>
>
> U-Boot 2011.12-dirty (Jul 30 2012 - 13:44:03)
>
> CPU  : OMAP4430 ES2.1
> Board: OMAP4 Panda
> I2C:   ready
> DRAM:  1 GiB
> MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
> Using default environment
>
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> reading boot.scr
>
> ** Unable to read "boot.scr" from mmc 0:1 **
> reading uImage
>
> 4176404 bytes read
> Booting from mmc0 ...
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 82000000 ...
>     Image Name:   Linux-3.1.0
>     Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>     Data Size:    4176340 Bytes = 4 MiB
>     Load Address: 80008000
>     Entry Point:  80008000
>     Verifying Checksum ... OK
>     Loading Kernel Image ... OK
> OK
>
> Starting kernel ...
>
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

Start with the obvious - check the bootparams in U-Boot.  Break into
the boot process and run the 'printenv' command.  What's the value of
the "console" variable?

n.b. I've not tried this exact setup on the PandaBoard.  I may have time
later today to do so.

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