Thanks Gary,
You where spot on! I have now been able to SSH into the rpi and have posted the Xorg.log file to the mailing list. I think Xorg is failing to load correctly because it cannot find the evdev module. Looking into how to fix this now...... Regards, Steve. ________________________________ From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org <yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org> on behalf of Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> Sent: Friday, 10 March 2017 5:42 a.m. To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] Raspberry Pi2 Fails to boot into LXDE. On 2017-03-10 01:55, Steve Plant wrote: > OK, I have spent the last day googling my heart out trying to find the > Xorg.log file without any luck. > > > The problem is that due to the rpi hanging on boot, the only way I can access > the SD card to look for the file is place > it in a USB SD card reader and use my VirtualBox based Debian to "ls" > directores etc. > > Having established that there is no file located at /var/log/Xorg.log (there > isn't a log directory) but there is a > symbolic link in the var directory - goes nowhere. > > > After goggling I discovered that the file could also be in the > ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log, however if I try to look > there I get "permission denied" and cannot seem to get to the root directory > of the card and I can't find a way around > this as I'm trying to access this directory through the USB card reader. > > > Looked everywhere with no answers, Is there anyone who could help me here?? /var/log is on a volatile file system (i.e. it does not live on the SD card) If you can get into your board via SSH, you can copy the file and send it > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 March 2017 5:17 p.m. > *To:* Steve Plant > *Cc:* yocto@yoctoproject.org > *Subject:* Re: [yocto] Raspberry Pi2 Fails to boot into LXDE. > > On 17-03-08 12:40:51, Steve Plant wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> >> Very new to all this linux world, and especially Yocto. >> >> >> I'm working on a embedded project at the moment using a raspberry pi2 board. >> >> >> 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: >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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!!) >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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 ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto yocto Info Page<https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> lists.yoctoproject.org Discussion of all things about the Yocto Project. Read our Community Guidelines or learn more about how to participate in other community discussions.
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