Installing ubuntu 13.04 server

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Yes, i have partition setup configured by default to be correct, such
that you can just say okay..

Regards,

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"Read-only file system" your microSD card is crap, get ANY other
brand.. (SanDisk Ultra have always been reliable for me..)

Regards,

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Brand is Kingston, and has worked so far using 12.04 and others. I will reformat it and see what it does. Don’t have another brand (yet).

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Used a Kingston 16 GB this time (instead of 8 GB) , and goes fine. Have both tty02 and DVI connection, so looks good so far. Now going for the packages I couldn’t install on 12.04.

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hvn

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Ok, 2 glitches for now.
First: on monitor (DVI) I have graphical screen but no mouse (keyboard works).Via tty02 console (serial cable) I check dmesg for mouse and it’s there. Changed mouse and USB port but that doesn’t solve it. So far I only have access via serial console. Both mice worked while using 12.04 and work on other computers.
Second: the response via keyboard/monitor is very slow. Actually much slower than with 12.04 using lxde as well as fvwm.

Any clues or suggestions ?

Regards,

hvn

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Oh, it's there... hit "ctrl-alt-f1" -> "ctrl-alt-f7" the cursor should appear..

run

/boot/uboot/tools/pkgs/ti-omapdrm.sh

To build/install the v3.11/v3.12 kms xorg driver...

hwcursor problems with some xservers..

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/blob/master/pkgs/ti-omapdrm.sh#L143

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dpkg-divert: error: unable to create new file
‘/var/lib/dpkg/diversions-new’: Read-only file system
cleanup failed
can’t remove ‘/target/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d’: Read-only file system

Cannot open question file /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat:
Read-only
file system
Unexpected error: command not executed: ‘sh -c
debconf-apt-progress
tasksel’

Configuring ‘pkgsel’ failed with error code 1

So is this the usb errata bug ?

Nah your microSD card took a drive, looks like it just could not
handle the sustained writes so flipped to ro… Is this with v3.7.x
or
v3.12.x?

This is with omap3-beagle-xm

give “dt-beagleboard-xm” it’s newer/faster and the future…

Ok, went wrong as well:

dpkg: error: ‘/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb’ doesn’t exist: Read-only
file
system

This error shows for many packages. Any suggestions ?

“Read-only file system” your microSD card is crap, get ANY other
brand… (SanDisk Ultra have always been reliable for me…)

Ok, 2 glitches for now.
First: on monitor (DVI) I have graphical screen but no mouse (keyboard
works).Via tty02 console (serial cable) I check dmesg for mouse and it’s
there. Changed mouse and USB port but that doesn’t solve it. So far I only
have access via serial console. Both mice worked while using 12.04 and work
on other computers.

Oh, it’s there… hit “ctrl-alt-f1” → “ctrl-alt-f7” the cursor should appear…

Yes, did see a text(?) cursor for a second…and the screen is coming alive when I move the mouse. So it’s working indeed, just not visible.

run

/boot/uboot/tools/pkgs/ti-omapdrm.sh

To build/install the v3.11/v3.12 kms xorg driver…

hwcursor problems with some xservers…

Ok, building now.

Regards,

hvn

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Ok, I have the cursor now. But graphical response is extremely slow. Any solution for that ?

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Ok, I have the cursor now. But graphical response is extremely slow. Any
solution for that ?

Turns out it's only running at 600Mhz right now, I just pushed a patch
to fix it, and re-enable the 800Mhz/1Ghz options..

a fixed kernel should hit the repos later today..

Regards,

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Thanks. I guess I will wait for the repo update. BTW, probably not of your doing, but the fvwm desktop stays black. I can get the exit menu, but that’s all.

Regards.

hvn

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I got an update for libprocps0 and procps, not linux-image (as kernel on Ubuntu) but after reboot I don’t see a speed improvement. LXDE even seems slower than before. Or am I missing something ?

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It's now out.. Run this to upgrade...

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/raring-armhf/v3.12.0-armv7-x8/install-me.sh
sudo /bin/bash install-me.sh

Regards,

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Ok, this clearly improves the speed on both ssh and tty. The mouse cursor moves faster and the login menu does so as well. The LXDE desktop works fine now. Unfortunately, after login, the Fvwm desktop stays pitch black with a movable mouse cursor. I am able to exit it using the Fvwm mouse-menu.

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One other thing that differs much from 12.04 is that the SDcard light does not flash when it’s working. So right now I can’t tell what happens. Is there anything that can be done about this ?

Thanks for the good work.

Regards,

hvn

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Ok, I have the cursor now. But graphical response is extremely slow. Any
solution for that ?

Turns out it’s only running at 600Mhz right now, I just pushed a patch
to fix it, and re-enable the 800Mhz/1Ghz options…

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/armv7-multiplatform/commit/4f4725a83ad17ad11ec024a739f11ecd6a9cd597

a fixed kernel should hit the repos later today…

I got an update for libprocps0 and procps, not linux-image (as kernel on
Ubuntu) but after reboot I don’t see a speed improvement. LXDE even seems
slower than before. Or am I missing something ?

It’s now out… Run this to upgrade…

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/raring-armhf/v3.12.0-armv7-x8/install-me.sh
sudo /bin/bash install-me.sh

Sorry for the different posts, but considering the fact that the installation is done using that one server, I assume you take care of all the packages and dependencies as well. If this is correct, could you please take a look at ALSA lib? I want to use guvcview, but when I start this, nothing happens. Running in terminal shows that it can’t find cards.omap3.beagle.pcm definitions. I also posted this on the ubuntu forums but no response there yet.

And have to tell that the fvwm desktop actually does work. It just shows very different than it used to under 12.04. Desktop is just pitchblack without anything. Sorry for that.

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I wish I could edit my posts to change them for additions.
I’m trying to build a driver, and probably need linux-headers since I already have build-essentials installed and I find that the installed kernel 3.12.0 is not from the standard repos. The message I’m getting is that \lib\modules\3.12.0-armv7-x8/build is not found. Assuming you have it at the github, how do I install it ?
Also, does this kernel happen to be build with omap3-defconfig ?

Regards,

hvn

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>>
>> > Ok, I have the cursor now. But graphical response is extremely slow.
>> > Any
>> > solution for that ?
>>
>> Turns out it's only running at 600Mhz right now, I just pushed a patch
>> to fix it, and re-enable the 800Mhz/1Ghz options..
>>
>>
>>
>> xm: renable 1Ghz operation · RobertCNelson/armv7-multiplatform@4f4725a · GitHub
>>
>> a fixed kernel should hit the repos later today..
>
>
> I got an update for libprocps0 and procps, not linux-image (as kernel on
> Ubuntu) but after reboot I don't see a speed improvement. LXDE even
> seems
> slower than before. Or am I missing something ?

It's now out.. Run this to upgrade...

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/raring-armhf/v3.12.0-armv7-x8/install-me.sh
sudo /bin/bash install-me.sh

Sorry for the different posts, but considering the fact that the
installation is done using that one server, I assume you take care of all
the packages and dependencies as well. If this is correct, could you please
take a look at ALSA lib? I want to use guvcview, but when I start this,
nothing happens. Running in terminal shows that it can't find
cards.omap3.beagle.pcm definitions. I also posted this on the ubuntu forums
but no response there yet.

I do not control anything on ports.ubuntu.com

File a bug under: https://launchpad.net/bugs

And have to tell that the fvwm desktop actually does work. It just shows
very different than it used to under 12.04. Desktop is just pitchblack
without anything. Sorry for that.

I've never used fvwm, so i can't answer that..

Regards,

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I wish I could edit my posts to change them for additions.
I'm trying to build a driver, and probably need linux-headers since I
already have build-essentials installed and I find that the installed kernel
3.12.0 is not from the standard repos. The message I'm getting is that
\lib\modules\3.12.0-armv7-x8/build is not found. Assuming you have it at the
github, how do I install it ?

wget https://raw.github.com/gkaindl/beaglebone-ubuntu-scripts/master/bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
chmod +x ./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh

Also, does this kernel happen to be build with omap3-defconfig ?

No..
Full config is from either:

zcat /proc/config.gz
or:

Regards,

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I wish I could edit my posts to change them for additions.
I’m trying to build a driver, and probably need linux-headers since I
already have build-essentials installed and I find that the installed kernel
3.12.0 is not from the standard repos. The message I’m getting is that
\lib\modules\3.12.0-armv7-x8/build is not found. Assuming you have it at the
github, how do I install it ?

wget https://raw.github.com/gkaindl/beaglebone-ubuntu-scripts/master/bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
chmod +x ./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh

Thank you. After putting sudo in front of the last command, I’m getting errors though:

getting official kernel source from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.12.0.tar.bz2…
–2013-11-15 15:37:17-- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.12.0.tar.bz2
Resolving www.kernel.org (www.kernel.org)… 198.145.20.140, 149.20.4.69
Connecting to www.kernel.org (www.kernel.org)|198.145.20.140|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2013-11-15 15:37:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.

unpacking official kernel source…
tar (child): /tmp/tmp.mlXIqFA0RM/linux-3.12.0.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
applying patch patch-3.12-armv7-x8.diff.gz to linux-3.12.0…
patch: **** Can’t change to directory /tmp/tmp.mlXIqFA0RM/linux-3.12.0 : No such file or directory
moving kernel source to /usr/src/linux-3.12.0-armv7-x8…
mv: cannot stat ‘/tmp/tmp.mlXIqFA0RM/linux-3.12.0’: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move ‘/tmp/tmp.mlXIqFA0RM/kheaders/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12.0-armv7-x8/Module.symvers’ to ‘/usr/src/linux-3.12.0-armv7-x8/Module.symvers’: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move ‘/tmp/tmp.mlXIqFA0RM/kheaders/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12.0-armv7-x8/.config’ to ‘/usr/src/linux-3.12.0-armv7-x8/.config’: No such file or directory
preparing kernel source at /usr/src/linux-3.12.0-armv7-x8…
./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh: 177: cd: can’t cd to /usr/src/linux-3.12.0-armv7-x8
make: *** No rule to make target oldconfig'. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target prepare’. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `scripts’. Stop.
done: kernel sources for 3.12.0-armv7-x8 are now installed.
you should be able to compile kernel modules.

Considering the error messages and the last 2 lines, did something really go wrong or not ?

Also, does this kernel happen to be build with omap3-defconfig ?

No…
Full config is from either:

zcat /proc/config.gz
or:
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/armv7-multiplatform/blob/v3.12.x/patches/defconfig

Ok, thank you

Regards,

hvn

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I just submitted a patch/pull request for gkaindl, till then use this version..

rm bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
wget https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/beaglebone-ubuntu-scripts/master/bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
chmod +x bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh

Regards,