[yocto] Sato image runs, but doesn't start its GUI

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-11-13 05:59, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> I finally got around to trying to use our custom board's BSP with Yocto images.
>
> Since the board has a touchscreen (well, actually it has two) I built the core-image-sato.
>
> I had to tweak the startup a bit, because our framebuffer is in the FPGA it won't be available until after programming it and loading the modules.
>
> Setting psplash to S05 instead of S00, and modutils to load at S04 fixes the initialization order problems I saw.
>
> What I get now is a nice Yocto logo on the screen, and a progress bar that almost fills up. But nothing else happens. I'd expect the GUI to start then, but apparently there's
> nothing to trigger that?
>
> Display works, touch works, everything seems in perfect working order.
>
> I can't find anything that attempts to start anything. There's nothing in inittab, and there's nothing in rc3.d that resembles an attempt at starting something desktop GUI
> application or so.
>
> Am I missing something, is this a bug, or is this expected behaviour and am I supposed to type some magic command first?

If you are running the stock core-image-sato, X is started
by /etc/rc5.d/S09xserver-nodm

Do you have a serial console?  You can learn a lot from that.
Also try looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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