robotcontrol.service failed

Hi all,

I’m not able to reconfigure the robot control service. I’m getting the following error:

– Unit robotcontrol.service has begun starting up.
Oct 07 16:41:30 beaglebone rc_startup_routine[1167]: timeout reached while waiting f
Oct 07 16:41:30 beaglebone rc_startup_routine[1167]: TIMEOUT REACHED
Oct 07 16:41:30 beaglebone systemd[1]: robotcontrol.service: Control process exited,
Oct 07 16:41:30 beaglebone systemd[1]: Failed to start robotcontrol.
– Subject: Unit robotcontrol.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: https://www.debian.org/support

I guess I need to give more details. I’m using the eduMips platform. It looks like it’s failing to start the PWM module. I’ve seen some postings related to PWM but I can’t seem to find a solution.

Let's see:

sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh

Regards,

here’s the output from sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh

git:/opt/scripts/:[1aa73453b2c980b75e31e83dab7dd8b6696f10c7]
eeprom:[A335BNLTBLA21717EL001649]
model:[TI_AM335x_BeagleBone_Blue]
dogtag:[BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2018-10-07]
bootloader:[eMMC-(default)]:[/dev/mmcblk1]:[U-Boot 2018.09-00002-g0b54a51eee]:[location: dd MBR]
kernel:[4.14.71-ti-r80]
nodejs:[v6.14.4]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_overlays=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-14-TI-00A0.dtbo]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_cape_universal=1]
pkg check: to individually upgrade run: [sudo apt install --only-upgrade ]
pkg:[bb-cape-overlays]:[4.4.20180928.0-0rcnee0~stretch+20180928]
pkg:[bb-wl18xx-firmware]:[1.20180517-0rcnee0~stretch+20180517]
pkg:[kmod]:[23-2rcnee1~stretch+20171005]
pkg:[librobotcontrol]:[1.0.3-git20181005.0-0rcnee0~stretch+20181005]
pkg:[firmware-ti-connectivity]:[20170823-1rcnee1~stretch+20180328]
groups:[debian : debian adm kmem dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev users systemd-journal i2c bluetooth netdev cloud9ide gpio pwm eqep admin spi tisdk weston-launch xenomai]
cmdline:[console=ttyO0,115200n8 bone_capemgr.uboot_capemgr_enabled=1 root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait coherent_pool=1M net.ifnames=0 quiet]
dmesg | grep pinctrl-single
[ 1.070379] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: 142 pins at pa f9e10800 size 568
dmesg | grep gpio-of-helper

Also here’s systemct status:

systemctl status robotcontrol.service
● robotcontrol.service - robotcontrol
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/robotcontrol.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-10-07 16:51:01 UTC; 1min 14s ago
Process: 1533 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rc_startup_routine (code=exited, status=255)

Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone systemd[1]: Starting robotcontrol…
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone rc_startup_routine[1533]: timeout reached while waiting for pwm drive
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone rc_startup_routine[1533]: TIMEOUT REACHED
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone systemd[1]: robotcontrol.service: Control process exited, code=exited
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone systemd[1]: Failed to start robotcontrol.
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone systemd[1]: robotcontrol.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 07 16:51:01 beaglebone systemd[1]: robotcontrol.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

thank you,
Scott

Hold the phone…I got it working. I simply did an update before running dpkg-reconfigure (instead of after - as the instructions indicates).

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade librobotcontrol

Thank you for the help!