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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved UT for Raspberry Pi
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      • alan_gA Offline
        alan_g @Aury88
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        @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.

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        • Aury88A Offline
          Aury88 @alan_g
          last edited by 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"?

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          • alan_gA Offline
            alan_g @Aury88
            last edited by

            @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").

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            • Aury88A Offline
              Aury88 @alan_g
              last edited by

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

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              • Pulsar33P Offline
                Pulsar33
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                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

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                Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                • Aury88A Offline
                  Aury88 @Pulsar33
                  last edited by 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)

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                  • alan_gA Offline
                    alan_g @Aury88
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                    @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.)

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                    • Aury88A Offline
                      Aury88 @alan_g
                      last edited by Aury88

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

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                      • alan_gA Offline
                        alan_g @Aury88
                        last edited by

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

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                        • Pulsar33P Offline
                          Pulsar33 @alan_g
                          last edited by 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

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                          • Aury88A Offline
                            Aury88 @alan_g
                            last edited by 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
                            
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                            • Pulsar33P Offline
                              Pulsar33
                              last edited by

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

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                              • alan_gA Offline
                                alan_g @Aury88
                                last edited by

                                @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

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                                • Aury88A Offline
                                  Aury88 @alan_g
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                                  @alan_g thank you.! I will try that.

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                                  • Pulsar33P Offline
                                    Pulsar33
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello
                                    Don't know what to do.
                                    And you ?
                                    BR
                                    Pulsar33

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                                    Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                                    • Aury88A Offline
                                      Aury88 @Pulsar33
                                      last edited by Aury88

                                      No @Pulsar33, we mortals are all stuck with the compositor error. also I can access only the first time to the session. it asks to set a name to the device but in the following boots, after login (with phablet or the chosen name is the same) it start a wrongly orientated login interface without keyboard recognition and the impossibility to use the virtual keyboard due to the compositor problem.... also I am not able to access the console mode 😖

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                                      • Pulsar33P Offline
                                        Pulsar33
                                        last edited by

                                        Thank you for the answer
                                        Is your build the last successful one #44 created today ?
                                        I can't test it before a few days but I will asap
                                        BR
                                        Pulsar33

                                        Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                                        Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                                        Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                                        • Aury88A Offline
                                          Aury88 @Pulsar33
                                          last edited by

                                          @Pulsar33 yes. the #44 have a working GUI (but still not the compositor).

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                                          • Aury88A Offline
                                            Aury88
                                            last edited by Aury88

                                            Warning!: the last rootfs-rpi build (#51) has not the GUI.
                                            Here the cat /.cache/upstart/unity8.log pastebin

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                                            • Pulsar33P Offline
                                              Pulsar33
                                              last edited by Pulsar33

                                              Hello,

                                              Things are moving on the raspberrypi.org forum. An Ubuntu sub-forum has been open in Operating System distributions / Other and an old thread about Unity has been updated. A few members are posting.

                                              BR
                                              Pulsar33

                                              Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                                              Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                                              Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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