Posts by vpeter

Solution: LibreELEC

Real solution: LibreELEC

Our dear user ozolli kindly gave me access to his build box and I successfully identified the issue. He is using Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid.
LibreELEC is using host tools for formatting EXT4 partition. And Debian is using newer version of ext2 filesystem utilities
which supports some new filesystem feature called metadata_csum. But e2fsprogs 1.42.13 used by LibreELEC doesn't understand that. And populatefs fail at the end.

There are 3 possible solutions:
1.) If whole build is already done then mke2fs should disable some features (64bit,metadata_csum).
The line should look like this in file scripts/mkimage:

mke2fs -F -q -t ext4 -m 0 -O ^64bit,^metadata_csum "$LE_TMP/part2.ext4"

2.) For new builds e2fsprogs package should be bumped to 1.43.3
file packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/package.mk
3.) remove feature metadata_csum from /etc/mke2fs.conf
for advanced users only!

PRochefort or anyone else with this issue: can you come to IRC to talk about it (find vpeter )? And we will try to figure out what is going on.

U-boot needs extra patch to build it for wandboard.
Kernel needs device tree + rfkill patch.
And that should be it

I tried current 1.2 version in folder JÖRG_Ω-Jörg. And I could run and download image to this folder. Wondering why. Any idea?

[hr]

Update: I think now I understand the problem which is with writing image to USB/SD?

Quote from Goga777

unfortunately, even with your patch I have the same issue

Then I'm not sure what it could be.

Would be possible to give me ssh access to your box so I could investigate myself?

Quote from Goga777

Nevertheless, even with that error can I use already prepared tar build in target folder ?

I think tar file is fine in this case.

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how did you solve the issue ?

Try using newer populatefs. In LibreELEC folder run

wget -O populatefs.patch https://github.com/vpeter4/LibreELEC.tv/commit/b6cfd290a18ff761afe1c51984baf2dd319e88b4.patch
patch -p1 <populatefs.patch
PROJECT=... ARCH=... scripts/clean populatefs
PROJECT=... ARCH=... make image

LibreELEC

I see only 2 queries on boot and then nothing for some time.

LibreELEC:~ #  journalctl --no-pager -b -0 | grep ntp:
Jan 04 18:52:17 LibreELEC connmand[304]: ntp: time slew +1.154688 s
Jan 04 18:52:18 LibreELEC connmand[304]: ntp: time slew -0.002825 s

Thanks. I see no obvious reason for this.

But strangely now I'm also seeing sometimes this messages over serial console. Will investigate the issue and if I found something I will post here.

Thanks. I will update package just in case.

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Error: [Filesystem error] /tmp/tmp.JEExJmHhPb/part2.ext4 cannot be opened.

There is some bug when building populatefs (i get a 152k binary) built it on ubuntu I get only 42k binary - replaced the one in toolchain with one built on ubuntu host (outside of LE build environment) and build now completes successfully..

Such error was reported but no one knows what the problem was/is.

Which ubuntu version are you using and I will look how it is build there.

Quote from orangesky

I think this is a better snapshot here.

The most important thing is at start. But on both your images top/left part of the image is missing. Can you make another image please?

Also how long it takes when you issue shutdown command until you see this messages? Immediately, 1 second, 5 second, ...

Just to confirm: you don't see any [FAILED] ?

Systemd shows messages only if some service fail. It would be good to know which one does for you? Could you make some image/video on shutdown?

To completely hide systemd messages this boot parameter should do the job:

quiet morequiet systemd.show_status=0

No support for it - no hardware here. But should be very easy to do.