Hermanverschooten
Custom Nerves firmware for RPi5 issues
I am going out of the frying pan into the fire today…
I wanted to create a custom firmware for my RPi5, I need nftables.
So I cloned the repo at the latest tag (v0.3.1), set my MIX_TARGET, changed the mix.exs file, as I have done several times in the past.
I got my dependencies and compiled, so far so good.
Now I need to get to the make menuconfig, so I ran mix nerves.system.shell copied the docker command and ran it. Still good.
But when I do make menuconfig I just get a blank screen, with a single line on the bottom
/home/nerves/project/.config - Buildroot 2024.05.2 Configuration----------
That’s all. No menus, nothing and I have to ctrl-c to get out of it.
I assumed it has something to do with me being on an M2-Mac, so I ssh-d into my Ubuntu development machine and did the same dance.
But here I cannot even get the firmware to compile.
==> nerves
==> nerves_system_br
Generated nerves_system_br app
==> nerves_toolchain_ctng
Compiling 1 file (.ex)
Generated nerves_toolchain_ctng app
==> nerves_toolchain_aarch64_nerves_linux_gnu
Generated nerves_toolchain_aarch64_nerves_linux_gnu app
==> gratwifi_rpi5
Generated gratwifi_rpi5 app
Buildroot extracted to /home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/deps/nerves_system_br/buildroot.
Applying 0001-erlang-clean-up-target-installation.patch using patch:
patching file package/erlang/erlang.mk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 93 (offset -2 lines).
Applying 0002-mtools-Disable-iconv-use-on-target.patch using patch:
patching file package/mtools/mtools.mk
Applying 0003-NERVES_DEFCONFIG_DIR-support.patch using patch:
patching file Makefile
Hunk #2 succeeded at 995 (offset 6 lines).
Applying 0004-Add-customizable-linux-logo.patch using patch:
patching file linux/Config.ext.in
patching file linux/linux-ext-customlogo.mk
patching file package/Config.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 282 (offset 2 lines).
patching file package/customlogo/Config.in
patching file package/customlogo/customlogo.mk
Applying 0005-kernel-wireless-regdb-install-regdb-in-kernel.patch using patch:
patching file linux/Config.ext.in
patching file linux/linux-ext-kernel-wireless-regdb.mk
patching file package/Config.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2459 (offset 101 lines).
patching file package/kernel-wireless-regdb/Config.in
patching symbolic link package/kernel-wireless-regdb/kernel-wireless-regdb.hash
patching file package/kernel-wireless-regdb/kernel-wireless-regdb.mk
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patching file package/erlang/erlang.mk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 39 (offset 8 lines).
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patching file package/erlang/21.3.8.24/0001-erts-ethread-instruct-libatomic_ops-we-do-require-CA.patch
patching file package/erlang/21.3.8.24/0002-erts-emulator-reorder-inclued-headers-paths.patch
patching file package/erlang/21.3.8.24/0003-Link-with-LDLIBS-instead-of-LIBS-for-DED.patch
patching file package/erlang/21.3.8.24/0004-erlang-enable-deterministic-builds.patch
patching file package/erlang/22.3.4.26/0001-erts-ethread-instruct-libatomic_ops-we-do-require-CA.patch
patching file package/erlang/22.3.4.26/0002-erts-emulator-reorder-inclued-headers-paths.patch
patching file package/erlang/22.3.4.26/0003-erlang-enable-deterministic-builds.patch
patching file package/erlang/22.3.4.26/0004-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/23.3.4.14/0001-erts-ethread-instruct-libatomic_ops-we-do-require-CA.patch
patching file package/erlang/23.3.4.14/0002-erts-emulator-reorder-inclued-headers-paths.patch
patching file package/erlang/23.3.4.14/0003-erlang-enable-deterministic-builds.patch
patching file package/erlang/23.3.4.14/0004-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/24.3.2/0001-erts-ethread-instruct-libatomic_ops-we-do-require-CA.patch
patching file package/erlang/24.3.2/0002-erts-emulator-reorder-inclued-headers-paths.patch
patching file package/erlang/24.3.2/0003-erlang-enable-deterministic-builds.patch
patching file package/erlang/24.3.2/0004-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/25.3.2/0001-erts-emulator-reorder-inclued-headers-paths.patch
patching file package/erlang/25.3.2/0003-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/26.2.5/0001-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/26.2.5/0002-erlang-libei-arch-compile.patch
patching file package/erlang/27.0.1/0001-disksup-update-df-call-to-work-with-Busybox.patch
patching file package/erlang/Config.in
patching file package/erlang/erlang.hash
patching file package/erlang/erlang.mk
Applying 0008-erlang-don-t-install-to-target.patch using patch:
patching file package/erlang/erlang.mk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 48 with fuzz 2 (offset 3 lines).
Applying 0009-rpi-firmware-support-custom-version-selection.patch using patch:
patching file package/rpi-firmware/Config.in
patching file package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk
Applying 0010-Revert-package-libp11-bump-to-version-0.4.12.patch using patch:
patching file package/libp11/0001-Update-wp11_rsa.c.patch
patching file package/libp11/0001-src-p11_attr.c-fix-build-with-gcc-4.8.patch
patching file package/libp11/libp11.hash
patching file package/libp11/libp11.mk
Applying 0011-toolchain-external-refine-support-library-search-to-.patch using patch:
patching file toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 451 (offset 16 lines).
Applying 0012-fwup-bump-to-v1.10.1.patch using patch:
patching file package/fwup/fwup.hash
patching file package/fwup/fwup.mk
Applying 0013-uboot-support-alternative-TEE-filenames.patch using patch:
patching file boot/uboot/Config.in
patching file boot/uboot/uboot.mk
Applying 0014-Install-Linux-headers-to-staging.patch using patch:
patching file linux/linux.mk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 553 (offset 4 lines).
make: Entering directory '/home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/deps/nerves_system_br/buildroot-2024.05.2'
GEN /home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/.nerves/artifacts/gratwifi_rpi5-portable-0.3.1/Makefile
#
# configuration written to /home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/.nerves/artifacts/gratwifi_rpi5-portable-0.3.1/.config
#
make: Leaving directory '/home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/deps/nerves_system_br/buildroot-2024.05.2'
------------
Build directory successfully created.
Configuration: /home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/nerves_defconfig
Next, do the following:
1. cd /home/herman/Projects/nerves/custom_rpi5/.nerves/artifacts/gratwifi_rpi5-portable-0.3.1
2. make
For additional options, run 'make help' in the build directory.
IMPORTANT: If you update nerves_system_br, you should rerun this script.
.** (Mix) Nerves encountered an error while constructing the artifact
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make[1]: *** [Makefile:750: target-finalize] Error 126
make: *** [Makefile:23: _all] Error 2
I traced the error back to the installation of the certificates, apparently it is trying to call the target cat command instead of the host’s.
So now I am stuck, on my Mac the firmware compiles, but make menuconfig is empty, on Ubuntu it doesn’t compile.
Help?
Marked As Solved
tomfarm
Are you using Kitty as your terminal? It sets TERM to xterm-kitty, which can lead to strange problems.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/713
Setting TERM to xterm in the nerves shell might solve the blank screen
mix nerves.system.shell
## wait a bit :)
export TERM=xterm
make menuconfig
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Hermanverschooten
OMG, it’s not kiity, but iTerm2, but the issue was the same.
when I started the shell and echo $TERM it replied dumb.
So I set it to xterm and now it works.
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Hermanverschooten
I added it as an extra environment variable on the docker command.
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gus
Nerves Core Team
Thank you for this! I’ve been having the same problem on my recent custom systems using Elixir 1.17/Nerves Buildroot 1.28 (not sure which dependency changed to cause this issue), I just hadn’t got around to posting here or slack yet.
My TERM variable was also set to “dumb” on both Alacritty and iTerm2. Is there a way to persist this setting between calls to mix nerves.system.shell?
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