Re: BBB doesn't boot

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2014-04-15 05:52, Stanacar, StefanX wrote:
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> On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 09:03 +0000, Stanacar, StefanX wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 01:17 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:07:28AM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 05:44:04AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 21:38 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:20:03AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 18:44 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:11:05PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Very interesting results!  These are the results from the build hosts I have:
>>>>>>>>>   Fedora 13 (i686) - fails
>>>>>>>>>   Fedora 17 (i686) - fails
>>>>>>>>>   Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64) - boots
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Interesting indeed. I have no idea what's so special about Fedora host - this 
>>>>>>>> is the first time I hear about issues with it. I may try experimenting with 
>>>>>>>> different VMs once I have more time...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been having a look at this. The biggest differences I can find
>>>>>>> between working and non working builds is the path length to the build
>>>>>>> directory for the kernel. This is from comparing vmlinux files from
>>>>>>> working and non working builds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Works:
>>>>>>> /home/paul/poky/build/tmp/work/beaglebone-poky-linux-gnueabi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doesn't Work:
>>>>>>> /media/data1/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/beaglebone-poky-linux-gnueabi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I also have been wondering if the version strings may be making a
>>>>>>> difference.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://dan.rpsys.net/uImage-rp2 is a uImage from a broken build where I
>>>>>>> truncated the path length to a "working" build path length and patched
>>>>>>> in the same version strings:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> const char linux_banner[] = 
>>>>>>>        "Linux version 3.14.0-yocto-standard (paul@ubuntu-build01) (gcc
>>>>>>> version 4.8.2 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Mon Apr 14 16:00:52 BST 2014\n";
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> const char linux_proc_banner[] = "%s version %s (paul@ubuntu-build01)
>>>>>>> (gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC) ) %s\n";
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to init/version.c.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't have hardware and would be interested to know if the kernel
>>>>>>> linked to above works or not. If it doesn't, it rules out these path and
>>>>>>> string lengths, if it does work, it points to a problem there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Richard,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good catch! It boots:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Denys, this helps narrow down the issue. I've shared
>>>>> http://dan.rpsys.net/uImage-rp3 which is the same as the last one but
>>>>> with my changes to version.c reverted. The one should tell us if its the
>>>>> paths or the strings.
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>>>> This one also boots for me:
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>>>> Linux version 3.14.0-yocto-standard (richard@ted) (gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC) ) #2 PREEMPT Tue Apr 15 05:40:19 IST 2014
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>>>>> I'm guessing the path problem is more likely but anything is possible.
>>>>> This is starting to look like some kind of compiler or linker issue. If
>>>>> it is that, it would help to have more data points about what works and
>>>>> what doesn't. With that in mind could people who have good or bad builds
>>>>> please share the paths they built the kernels in so we can see if we can
>>>>> spot some kind of pattern.
>>>
>>> BTW, my path is /OE/RAM/poky/tmp/work/beaglebone-poky-linux-gnueabi and it 
>>> works.
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>> I can confirm:
>>  build dir in /home/stefans/b1  works,
>> but /home/stefans/yocto/poky/build doesn't.
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> But this works 
> [stefans@firebird bu]$ pwd
> /home/stefans/yocto/poky/bu
> [stefans@firebird bu]$ echo `pwd`| wc -c
> 28
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> But 29 doesn't.
> So, what now?

Hard to know, it might take debugging via JTAG to find out what's
happening since when it fails, it's so dead that nothing makes it
to the [dmesg] log buffer :-(

Sadly, I can't help much with this as I don't have a JTAG debug
setup for the BBB.

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