First Yocto build for Apalis iMX8QP fails

Hello,
I have a SoM
[00481001] Apalis iMX8QP 2GB WB V1.0B
I setup a fresh environment following the instructions in your website

$ bitbake core-image-minimal
Parsing recipes: 100% |##############################################################| Time: 0:00:45
Parsing of 2748 .bb files complete (0 cached, 2748 parsed). 3913 targets, 240 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
  
Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION           = "1.46.0"
BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING      = "ubuntu-18.04"
TARGET_SYS           = "aarch64-tdx-linux"
MACHINE              = "apalis-imx8"
DISTRO               = "tdx-xwayland"
DISTRO_VERSION       = "5.4.0-devel-20210924091123+build.0"
TUNE_FEATURES        = "aarch64"
TARGET_FPU           = ""
meta-toradex-nxp     = "HEAD:4a074b05bad21ac438a398bb036ec0e8da41513c"
meta-freescale       = "HEAD:12c3eed6a90b436565126d8ba6934f794b816e25"
meta-freescale-3rdparty = "HEAD:537cb85e4db17d1f6b356a92112b32ae2e39b235"
meta-toradex-tegra   = "HEAD:d4ef0a4584e04b14a6ba368b8cdf8592af43d3bb"
meta-toradex-bsp-common = "HEAD:276a8e076225332b336e41eb2c62375ddc6989bf"
meta-oe
meta-filesystems
meta-gnome
meta-xfce
meta-initramfs
meta-networking
meta-multimedia
meta-python          = "HEAD:85f8047c71047d93cf79a954142157f85079968d"
meta-freescale-distro = "HEAD:5d882cdf079b3bde0bd9869ce3ca3db411acbf3b"
meta-toradex-demos   = "HEAD:f99619b2135ff939b6370be8116d66a10bc84836"
meta-qt5             = "HEAD:b4d24d70aca75791902df5cd59a4f4a54aa4a125"
meta-toradex-distro  = "HEAD:e1ede4ecd59e23f29f19dc9729f0a3b89f1f69af"
meta-poky            = "HEAD:eb6e625d72fb49a707b0782e55530b3551f2396f"
meta                 = "HEAD:ce78c16409363741d59a2f787aca66077bec93cd"
  
NOTE: Fetching uninative binary shim http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/uninative/3.2/x86_64-nativesdk-libc.tar.xz;sha256sum=3ee8c7d55e2d4c7ae3887cddb97219f97b94efddfeee2e24923c0c
b0e8ce84c6 (will check PREMIRRORS first)
Initialising tasks: 100% |###########################################################| Time: 0:00:01
Sstate summary: Wanted 975 Found 0 Missed 975 Current 0 (0% match, 0% complete)
NOTE: Executing Tasks

But I get the following error apparently in your class image_type_tezi.bbclass:

ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_image_teziimg: Error executing a python function in exec_python_func() autogenerated:
                                                                                                    The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:           
             File: 'exec_python_func() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>                                  0001:                                                                
                           *** 0002:rootfs_tezi_run_json(d)
     0003:                                                                                          File: '/home/works/yocto/build/../layers/meta-toradex-bsp-common/classes/image_t
ype_tezi.bbclass', lineno: 347, function: rootfs_tezi_run_json                                                        0343:        flash_data = rootfs_tezi_emmc(d, use_bootfiles)                                        0344:        uenv_file = d.getVar('UBOOT_ENV_TEZI_EMMC')                                            0345:        uboot_file = d.getVar('UBOOT_BINARY_TEZI_EMMC')                                        0346:        # TODO: Multi image/raw NAND with SPL currently not supported                      *** 0347:        uboot_file += " " + d.getVar('SPL_BINARY') if d.getVar('OFFSET_SPL_PAYLOAD') else ""
     0348:        artifacts += " " + "%s/%s.%s" % (d.getVar('IMGDEPLOYDIR'), d.getVar('IMAGE_LINK_NAME'), d.getVar('TEZI_BOOT_SUFFIX')) if use_bootfiles else ""
     0349:    else:
     0350:        bb.fatal("Toradex flash type unknown")
     0351:
Exception: TypeError: must be str, not NoneType

ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/works/yocto/build/tmp/work/apalis_imx8-tdx-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_image_teziimg.17064
ERROR: Task (/home/works/yocto/build/../layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb:do_image_teziimg) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2975 tasks of which 5 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
NOTE: Writing buildhistory
NOTE: Writing buildhistory took: 3 seconds

Would you mind having a look at it?

Thanks

– Marco

Hi Marco

I built core-image-minimal successfully here with the exact same layer version you used, albeit on Fedora.

Could you provide your local.conf and the file created with bitbake core-image-minimal -e > core-image-minimal.txt?

Max

Hi Max,
which Fedora version did you use?
As you can see I am on Ubuntu-18.04
I haven’t done any modification in the setup, simply switched to "“apalis-imx8”.

#
# This file is your local configuration file and is where all local user settings
# are placed. The comments in this file give some guide to the options a new user
# to the system might want to change but pretty much any configuration option can
# be set in this file. More adventurous users can look at local.conf.extended
# which contains other examples of configuration which can be placed in this file
# but new users likely won't need any of them initially.
#
# Lines starting with the '#' character are commented out and in some cases the
# default values are provided as comments to show people example syntax. Enabling
# the option is a question of removing the # character and making any change to the
# variable as required.

#
# Machine Selection
#
# You need to select a specific machine to target the build with. These are the
# machines which target the Toradex Apalis, Colibri and Verdin computer on
# module families:
#
#MACHINE ?= "apalis-imx6"
#MACHINE ?= "apalis-imx8"
#MACHINE ?= "apalis-imx8x"
#MACHINE ?= "apalis-tk1"
#
MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx6"
#MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx6ull"
#MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx6ull-emmc"
#MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx7"
#MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx7-emmc"
#MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx8x"
#
#MACHINE ?= "verdin-imx8mm"
#
# There are also a selection of emulated machines available which can boot and run
# in the QEMU emulator:
#
#MACHINE ?= "qemuarm"
#MACHINE ?= "qemumips"
#MACHINE ?= "qemuppc"
#MACHINE ?= "qemux86"
#MACHINE ?= "qemux86-64"

#
# Where to place downloads
#
# During a first build the system will download many different source code tarballs
# from various upstream projects. This can take a while, particularly if your network
# connection is slow. These are all stored in DL_DIR. When wiping and rebuilding you
# can preserve this directory to speed up this part of subsequent builds. This directory
# is safe to share between multiple builds on the same machine too.
#
# The default is a downloads directory under TOPDIR which is the build directory.
#
DL_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/../downloads"

#
# Where to place shared-state files
#
# BitBake has the capability to accelerate builds based on previously built output.
# This is done using "shared state" files which can be thought of as cache objects
# and this option determines where those files are placed.
#
# You can wipe out TMPDIR leaving this directory intact and the build would regenerate
# from these files if no changes were made to the configuration. If changes were made
# to the configuration, only shared state files where the state was still valid would
# be used (done using checksums).
#
# The default is a sstate-cache directory under TOPDIR.
#
SSTATE_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/../sstate-cache"

#
# Where to place the build output
#
# This option specifies where the bulk of the building work should be done and
# where BitBake should place its temporary files and output. Keep in mind that
# this includes the extraction and compilation of many applications and the toolchain
# which can use Gigabytes of hard disk space.
#
# The default is a tmp directory under TOPDIR.
#
#TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp"

#
# Where to place images and sw packages
#
# This places the build output in parallel to build and layers thus
# if you have several build directories you need to adjust deploy
# to something unique, e.g. "${TOPDIR}/../deploy_fb" "${TOPDIR}/../deploy_x11"
DEPLOY_DIR = "${TOPDIR}/deploy"

#
# Package Management configuration
#
# This variable lists which packaging formats to enable. Multiple package backends
# can be enabled at once and the first item listed in the variable will be used
# to generate the root filesystems.
# Options are:
#  - 'package_deb' for debian style deb files
#  - 'package_ipk' for ipk files are used by opkg (a debian style embedded package manager)
#  - 'package_rpm' for rpm style packages
# E.g.: PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
# We default to ipk:
PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"

#
# SDK target architecture
#
# This variable specifies the architecture to build SDK items for and means
# you can build the SDK packages for architectures other than the machine you are
# running the build on (i.e. building i686 packages on an x86_64 host).
# Supported values are i686 and x86_64
#SDKMACHINE ?= "i686"

#
# Extra image configuration defaults
#
# The EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES variable allows extra packages to be added to the generated
# images. Some of these options are added to certain image types automatically. The
# variable can contain the following options:
#  "dbg-pkgs"       - add -dbg packages for all installed packages
#                     (adds symbol information for debugging/profiling)
#  "src-pkgs"       - add -src packages for all installed packages
#                     (adds source code for debugging)
#  "dev-pkgs"       - add -dev packages for all installed packages
#                     (useful if you want to develop against libs in the image)
#  "ptest-pkgs"     - add -ptest packages for all ptest-enabled packages
#                     (useful if you want to run the package test suites)
#  "tools-sdk"      - add development tools (gcc, make, pkgconfig etc.)
#  "tools-debug"    - add debugging tools (gdb, strace)
#  "eclipse-debug"  - add Eclipse remote debugging support
#  "tools-profile"  - add profiling tools (oprofile, lttng, valgrind)
#  "tools-testapps" - add useful testing tools (ts_print, aplay, arecord etc.)
#  "debug-tweaks"   - make an image suitable for development
#                     e.g. ssh root access has a blank password
# There are other application targets that can be used here too, see
# meta/classes/image.bbclass and meta/classes/core-image.bbclass for more details.
# We default to enabling the debugging tweaks.
# package-management deploys the package meta data of deployed packeges
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES ?= "debug-tweaks package-management"

#
# Additional image features
#
# The following is a list of additional classes to use when building images which
# enable extra features. Some available options which can be included in this variable
# are:
#   - 'buildstats' collect build statistics
#   - 'image-mklibs' to reduce shared library files size for an image
#   - 'image-prelink' in order to prelink the filesystem image
# NOTE: if listing mklibs & prelink both, then make sure mklibs is before prelink
# NOTE: mklibs also needs to be explicitly enabled for a given image, see local.conf.extended
USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"

#
# Runtime testing of images
#
# The build system can test booting virtual machine images under qemu (an emulator)
# after any root filesystems are created and run tests against those images. It can also
# run tests against any SDK that are built. To enable this uncomment these lines.
# See classes/test{image,sdk}.bbclass for further details.
#IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage testsdk"
#TESTIMAGE_AUTO_qemuall = "1"

#
# Interactive shell configuration
#
# Under certain circumstances the system may need input from you and to do this it
# can launch an interactive shell. It needs to do this since the build is
# multithreaded and needs to be able to handle the case where more than one parallel
# process may require the user's attention. The default is iterate over the available
# terminal types to find one that works.
#
# Examples of the occasions this may happen are when resolving patches which cannot
# be applied, to use the devshell or the kernel menuconfig
#
# Supported values are auto, gnome, xfce, rxvt, screen, konsole (KDE 3.x only), none
# Note: currently, Konsole support only works for KDE 3.x due to the way
# newer Konsole versions behave
#OE_TERMINAL = "auto"
# By default disable interactive patch resolution (tasks will just fail instead):
PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"

#
# Disk Space Monitoring during the build
#
# Monitor the disk space during the build. If there is less that 1GB of space or less
# than 100K inodes in any key build location (TMPDIR, DL_DIR, SSTATE_DIR), gracefully
# shutdown the build. If there is less that 100MB or 1K inodes, perform a hard abort
# of the build. The reason for this is that running completely out of space can corrupt
# files and damages the build in ways which may not be easily recoverable.
# It's necesary to monitor /tmp, if there is no space left the build will fail
# with very exotic errors.
BB_DISKMON_DIRS ??= "\
    STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
    STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
    STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
    STOPTASKS,/tmp,100M,100K \
    ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
    ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
    ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \
    ABORT,/tmp,10M,1K"

#
# Shared-state files from other locations
#
# As mentioned above, shared state files are prebuilt cache data objects which can
# used to accelerate build time. This variable can be used to configure the system
# to search other mirror locations for these objects before it builds the data itself.
#
# This can be a filesystem directory, or a remote url such as http or ftp. These
# would contain the sstate-cache results from previous builds (possibly from other
# machines). This variable works like fetcher MIRRORS/PREMIRRORS and points to the
# cache locations to check for the shared objects.
# NOTE: if the mirror uses the same structure as SSTATE_DIR, you need to add PATH
# at the end as shown in the examples below. This will be substituted with the
# correct path within the directory structure.
#SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
#file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \
#file://.* file:///some/local/dir/sstate/PATH"


#
# Qemu configuration
#
# By default qemu will build with a builtin VNC server where graphical output can be
# seen. The two lines below enable the SDL backend too. By default libsdl2-native will
# be built, if you want to use your host's libSDL instead of the minimal libsdl built
# by libsdl2-native then uncomment the ASSUME_PROVIDED line below.
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-qemu-system-native = " sdl"
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-nativesdk-qemu = " sdl"
#ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl2-native"

#
# Hash Equivalence
#
# Enable support for automatically running a local hash equivalence server and
# instruct bitbake to use a hash equivalence aware signature generator. Hash
# equivalence improves reuse of sstate by detecting when a given sstate
# artifact can be reused as equivalent, even if the current task hash doesn't
# match the one that generated the artifact.
#
# A shared hash equivalent server can be set with "<HOSTNAME>:<PORT>" format
#
#BB_HASHSERVE = "auto"
#BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEEquivHash"


# Toradex fitImage support (For EMMC modules)
#
# To enable fitimage, uncomment the following two lines
#
# KERNEL_CLASSES_append = " toradex-fitimage"
# KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_forcevariable = "${@'zImage' if d.getVar('TORADEX_FLASH_TYPE') == 'rawnand' else 'fitImage'}"


# CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/ changes incompatibly and is used to
# track the version of this file when it was generated. This can safely be ignored if
# this doesn't mean anything to you.
CONF_VERSION = "1"

# Delete the the source/object/binary files once a package is built to preserve disk space
INHERIT += "rm_work"

# Add Toradex bbclasses
INHERIT += "toradex-mirrors toradex-sanity"

# Use this distro
DISTRO = "tdx-xwayland"

# Don't generate the mirror tarball for SCM repos, the snapshot is enough
# BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "0"

# This file does not need to exist, if it does it can be used to influence machine specific
# configurations without copying the machine file.
include conf/machine/include/${MACHINE}.inc

### ADDED AFTER THE INITIAL SETUP ###

MACHINE = "apalis-imx8"
PACKAGE_CLASSES = 'package_ipk'
INHERIT += "rm_work"
RM_WORK_EXCLUDE += "virtual/kernel"
ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1"

Thank you

Hi Marco

I’m used Fedora 29 for that and I don’t think the build distro is the culprit.

Can you either

  • move your changes in local conf to the top of the file (or at least above that include line we have at the very bottom),
  • or build with MACHINE=apalis-imx8 bitbake ....
  • or comment the MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx6" line

and try again?

Max

Hi Max,
surprisingly it worked!
I commented the MACHINE ?= "colibri-imx6" line.

NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2868 tasks of which 2852 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.

Thank you