Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Pulsar33

Sorry but I didn't understand how to launch the graphical user interface.
And with a console mode only, I don't see what to do with it ...
I hope someone will describe the solution.
BR
Pulsar33

Pulsar33

Hello,

Nobody (knows how) is interested in running Ubports in graphical mode on a Raspberry Pi4 ?

Have a nice day
Pulsar33

A Former User

Well I, for one, am following UT on Pi with great interest, @Pulsar33.

I'm still at the "Kernel Panic" stage though, so I can't help much. Sorry.

Pulsar33

Hello,

Thanks for your answer, @3arn0wl

To be sure that we all use the same image, here are the sha256sums of the #8 latest stable build (2019 09 25) I use :
ubuntu-touch-raspberrypi.img.gz febf1ce00e639ae469bf075bce4472b82b25a6d634a147c01d666f1d4f5033c0
ubuntu-touch-raspberrypi.img 76a47458b90702a156e6f9741b448db5e4d0e5235ec177ae4dea9224e4e7e2b5

The flashing process on my Linux Mint 19.2 Desktop :

lsblk   # the SDcard appears as /dev/sdc
umount /dev/sdc1
umount /dev/sdc2
sudo dd bs=4M if=ubuntu-touch-raspberrypi.img of=/dev/sdc status=progress

BR
Pulsar33

Pulsar33

Still no clue from the GURUs ?
Please help us to progress and launch the GUI ...
Best regards
Pulsar33

Aury88

@Pulsar33
Hi!
The unity8 log is very similar to this issue in mir-kiosk. It says there is a workaround but I don't understand what it is....we need to study it and or help from @alan_g

it seems we need to

--env-hacks MIR_MESA_KMS_DISABLE_MODESET_PROBE

when run mir/unity8 but I don't undestand how...

Aury88

also we are using an old rootfs with missing firmwares (last building image is the #8 from 24 September when the firmwares integration in the common rootfs is from 3 October )

alan_g

@Aury88 said in Raspberry Pi 4 Model B:

@Pulsar33
Hi!
The unity8 log is very similar to this issue in mir-kiosk. It says there is a workaround but I don't understand what it is....we need to study it and or help from @alan_g

it seems we need to
--env-hacks MIR_MESA_KMS_DISABLE_MODESET_PROBE
when run mir/unity8 but I don't undestand how...

That's just one way to set an environment variable.

Aury88

@alan_g sorry but I'm not so skilled about bash and linux. so excuse me for the stupid question:
I knew that environment variable had to have a value so something like

ENV_NAME=value

MIR_MESA_KMS_DISABLE_MODESET_PROBE seem only the name...what is its value? is it"true"?

alan_g

@Aury88 said in Raspberry Pi 4 Model B:

@alan_g sorry but I'm not so skilled about bash and linux. so excuse me for the stupid question:
I knew that environment variable had to have a value so something like
ENV_NAME=value
MIR_MESA_KMS_DISABLE_MODESET_PROBE seem only the name...what is its value? is it"true"?

It doesn't need a value, so "true" will be fine (as will "false").

Aury88

no, setting that as an enviroment variable didn't solved the problem... ¯\(ツ)/¯

Pulsar33

Hello
Still stuck in console mode.
Please tell me the commands to try launching the graphical mode, even if this doesn't succeed at this time.
Pulsar33

Aury88

@Pulsar33 it should be in the Ctrl+Alt+F7. unity8 is by default already running in background. you can prove that by typing in the console

start unity8

Also you can restart it with

restart unity8

The problem is that it doesn't seem to work properly because of the mesa-kms missing support in the raspberrypi4 as you can see above
(EGL platform does not support EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension, Failed to detect whether device /dev/dri/card1 and card2 supports KMS and Couldn't get DRM resources for an Invalid argument)

alan_g

@Aury88 said in Raspberry Pi 4 Model B:

@Pulsar33 it should be in the Ctrl+Alt+F7. unity8 is by default already running in background. you can prove that by typing in the console
start unity8
Also you can restart it with
restart unity8
The problem is that it doesn't seem to work properly because of the mesa-kms missing support in the raspberrypi4 as you can see above
(EGL platform does not support EGL_KHR_platform_gbm extension, Failed to detect whether device /dev/dri/card1 and card2 supports KMS and Couldn't get DRM resources for an Invalid argument)

If that's how you are starting Unity8, then setting the environment variable needs to be done in the launch scripts, not in your terminal session. (Sorry, I don't know enough about how your image is set up to know where these scripts are.)

Aury88

@alan_g i didn't set that variable throught the terminal session but by editing /etc/environment and ~/.bashrc files

alan_g

@Aury88 it might help others help you if you pastebin the Unity8 log.

Pulsar33

@alan_g : Hello
I would be glad to pastebin it but I don't know where to find it. The only relevant logs I have are :

pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log$ ls -alR | grep oct.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root             979 oct.  20 21:00 .log20191020-185955.2080
-rw-r----- 1 root root               20 oct.  20 20:59 biometryd.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root              153 oct.  20 20:59 hwclock-save.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root               32 oct.  20 20:59 lightdm.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root               22 oct.  20 20:59 udev.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root               12 oct.  20 20:59 urfkill.log

And here is all what they contain :

pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat biometryd.log 
Terminated
Killed
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat urfkill.log 
Terminated
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat lightdm.log 
Failed to get D-Bus connection
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat udev.log 
starting version 229
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat hwclock-save.log 
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ sudo cat system-watchdog.log 
touch: cannot touch '/userdata/.last_watchdog_reboot': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/userdata/.last_watchdog_reboot': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/userdata/.last_watchdog_reboot': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/userdata/.last_watchdog_reboot': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/userdata/.last_watchdog_reboot': No such file or directory
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/upstart$ cd ../ubuntu-download-manager/
pulsar33@Minerve:/media/pulsar33/root/var/log/ubuntu-download-manager$ cat .log20191020-185955.2080 
Log file created at: 2019/10/20 18:59:55
Running on machine: ubuntu-phablet
Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msg
I1020 18:59:55.082846  2080 base_daemon.cpp:204] Timeout is enabled: 1
I1020 18:59:55.083389  2080 base_daemon.cpp:206] Daemon is stoppable: 0
I1020 18:59:55.087118  2080 downloads_db.cpp:151] Db file is  /var/cache/ubuntu-download-manager/downloads.db
I1020 18:59:55.126965  2080 network_session.cpp:100] Instance is null
I1020 18:59:55.127024  2080 network_session.cpp:103] Create new instance
I1020 18:59:55.222091  2080 network_session.cpp:68] Connection type 802-3-ethernet
I1020 18:59:55.222759  2080 manager.cpp:113] virtual void Ubuntu::DownloadManager::Daemon::DownloadManager::setAcceptedCertificates(const QList<QSslCertificate>&)
I1020 18:59:55.223557  2080 base_daemon.cpp:122] Service registered to com.canonical.applications.Downloader
I1020 19:00:25.228682  2080 base_daemon.cpp:152] Timeout reached, shutdown service.

Not so useful I guess
BR
Pulsar33

Aury88

@alan_g
Hi Alan!
The unity8 log pastebin was already linked in the first post of this thread. Sorry I thought that it was convenient to put it there. Here the link to the unity8 log pastebin.

@Pulsar33 for the unity8 log you have to do this:

cat /.cache/upstart/unity8.log

Pulsar33

Sorry, I miss that all logs in /home/phablet/.cache where not seen.
Same log as you ...
Pulsar33

alan_g

@Aury88 sorry, I didn't read the whole thread, just from the point you pinged me.

That log isn't related to https://github.com/MirServer/mir/issues/704 where one of the DRM functions returns a misleading result. Instead it looks like the graphics driver isn't adequately supported by Mesa.

I know that my colleagues at Canonical have yet to get graphics working on the Pi4 with Ubuntu Core (I think that's lack of time, not a technical issue). But maybe you can find something useful here: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/support-for-raspberry-pi-4/11970

For example:

you might need to play with the dtoverlay= kms or fkms values in config.txt. i know the vc4 driver isnt fully ready to drive the vc5 hardware in the pi4 but i know that for example my omxplayer-pi snap works fine (only 1080p though, omxplayer does not support h265 yet) when either using no dtoverlay or with the fkms one (not with the kms one though). - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/support-for-raspberry-pi-4/11970/17