[yocto] Raspberry Pi2 Fails to boot into LXDE.

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 09:17:42 PST 2017


On 17-03-08 12:40:51, Steve Plant wrote:
> Hi All,
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> 
> Very new to all this linux world, and especially Yocto.
> 
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> I'm working on a embedded project at the moment using a raspberry pi2 board.
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> I have used toaster with Morty 2.2 to compile an image using"rpi-basic-image", to this I have added the following bitbake variables:
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> Bitbake variables
> 
> DISTRO
> poky
> DL_DIR
> /home/steve/poky/downloads
> IMAGE_FSTYPES
> ext3 jffs2 tar.bz2 rpi-sdimg
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append
> packagegroup-core-x11-base packagegroup-lxde-base connman
> PACKAGE_CLASSES
> package_rpm
> SSTATE_DIR
> /home/steve/poky/sstate-cache
> 
> DISABLE_OVERSCAN
> 1
> GPU_MEM_1024
> 512
> 
> I have dd'ed the image to an SD card increased the sdb2 partition to the max size and powered up the rpi. Everything looks fine to start with, as it displays the four raspberrys in the top left, then the white "Yocto Project" splash screen complete with small blue dot to the side appears, the progress bar moves across to 100 percent, then the screen turns black with a white cursor in the middle and it appears to freeze with only a very dim one second flash of the "act" led.
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> I have then connected the 7" touchscreen and apart from the added multicolored square at the very beginning I get the exact same boot up problem, hangs on the black screen with white cursor (good to see its all resized correctly for the TfT through!!)
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> Before adding the packagegroup-core-x11-base and packagegroup-lxde-base I successfully copied over and ran the rpi-basic-image with no problem, ending up with a usable console.
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> Looking for any help here, I'm thinking I've missed adding a package, or some type of local.conf instruction. any suggestions would be appreciated.............

Can you send the content of /var/log/Xorg.log file ?

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> Regards, Steve.

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