Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-09 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Nicolas, On 7/9/2012 12:05 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:02 PM, David Cullen wrote: > > On a desktop system that would be an easy way to do it. > > Unfortunately, on the PandaBoard, it requires mounting the SD card > boot partition on another system,

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-09 Thread Dechesne, Nicolas
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:02 PM, David Cullen wrote: > > adding 'text' in the bootargs should do that. > > On a desktop system that would be an easy way to do it. > > Unfortunately, on the PandaBoard, it requires mounting the SD card > boot partition on another system, modifying the boot.cmd script

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-09 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Nicholas, On 7/9/2012 11:42 AM, Dechesne, Nicolas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, David Cullen wrote: > > Does anyone know how to keep lightdm from starting during boot > without using update-rc.d to delete the symlinks? Ubuntu does not > have a multi-user command-lin

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-09 Thread Dechesne, Nicolas
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, David Cullen wrote: > > If you do start X from the commandline, you will get valuable stderr > > coming quite deep into the whole desktop startup process. > > Does anyone know how to keep lightdm from starting during boot > without using update-rc.d to delete the sy

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-09 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Andy, On 7/3/2012 9:11 PM, Andy Green wrote: > You can often hear about problems in the display manager logs, for gdm > it's /var/log/gdm/\:0-greeter.log I am not sure what it is on Ubuntu. I see this: > root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# cat /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log > > X.Org X Server 1.11.

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread Andy Green
On 03/07/12 22:03, the mail apparently from David Cullen included: Hello, Andy, On 7/3/2012 2:14 AM, Andy Green wrote: On 07/03/12 03:47, the mail apparently from David Cullen included: After running some experiments here, I discovered that the Linaro Ubuntu images only work with displays that

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Tom and Andy, A bizarre thing just happened. I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the first VT. When I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back to X, the Unity GUI was displayed. However, when I opened Firefox and tried to navigate to YouTube, everything went black and I was left with only the mous

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Tom, On 7/3/2012 11:16 AM, Tom Gall wrote: > I looked at your log. I agree with Andy, this is probably not a > rebuild the kernel kind of situation. Ok. But that begs the question, "What else is different between the Linaro image and the Ubuntu image?" > Does the log really cut off at 12

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread Tom Gall
Hi David, I looked at your log. I agree with Andy, this is probably not a rebuild the kernel kind of situation. Does the log really cut off at 1239 lines or is there more? Thanks! Tom On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, David Cullen wrote: > Hello, Andy, > > On 7/3/2012 2:14 AM, Andy Green wrote:

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Andy, On 7/3/2012 2:14 AM, Andy Green wrote: > Did you have a look at the Xorg logs then, or try to come up in runlevel > three and do startx at the terminal? Here's a link to the Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/BtNzNJLb I'm afraid I don't know how to interpret it. I stopped lightd

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-03 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Andy, On 7/3/2012 2:14 AM, Andy Green wrote: > On 07/03/12 03:47, the mail apparently from David Cullen included: >> After running some experiments here, I discovered that the Linaro >> Ubuntu images only work with displays that have a native resolution >> of 1920x1080. >> >> I tried to use

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Andy Green
On 07/03/12 03:47, the mail apparently from David Cullen included: Hello, Tom, On 7/2/2012 2:29 PM, Tom Gall wrote: That "should" work fine. What's important for cross assembling your own images is that qemu is reasonably up to date. Lucid is getting fairly old now. Speaking for myself I haven'

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Tom, On 7/2/2012 2:29 PM, Tom Gall wrote: > That "should" work fine. What's important for cross assembling your > own images is that qemu is reasonably up to date. Lucid is getting > fairly old now. Speaking for myself I haven't built anything on lucid > for some time. You have a good poin

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Dechesne, Nicolas
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Tom Gall wrote: > > I have replies inline below, but ultimately, I am really trying to > > figure out how are the Linaro devs building these files: > > > > http://releases.linaro.org/12.06/ubuntu/leb-panda/ > > Sure thing. This helps. > Ubuntu LEB are images b

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Gall
Hi David On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM, David Cullen wrote: > Hello, Tom, > > I have replies inline below, but ultimately, I am really trying to > figure out how are the Linaro devs building these files: > >     http://releases.linaro.org/12.06/ubuntu/leb-panda/ Sure thing. This helps. > > On

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread David Cullen
Hello, Tom, I have replies inline below, but ultimately, I am really trying to figure out how are the Linaro devs building these files: http://releases.linaro.org/12.06/ubuntu/leb-panda/ On 7/2/2012 1:30 PM, Tom Gall wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, David Cullen > wrote: >> Hello,

Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Gall
Hi! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, David Cullen wrote: > Hello, linaro-dev, > > I am trying to follow the instructions at > >     https://wiki.linaro.org/Source/ImageBuilding Hmm those instructions look a bit out of date and I suspect that's why you're having issues. I sure hope your build sys