zedboard BSP build fails out of the box

[giorgio.lopez]

Hello,

I downloaded the Petalinux 2015.2 tools and the Avnet Zedboard 2015.2 BSP

However, as soon as I try petalinux-build after the creation of the project, i get the error:

[...I skip the initial messages which all look correct...]
[INFO ] Update and install vmlinux image
[INFO ] vmlinux linux/kernel
[INFO ] install linux/kernel
[INFO ] package zImage
[INFO ] zImage linux/kernel
[INFO ] install linux/kernel
[ERROR] ERROR: Invalid ELF file '/home/lopez/Petalinux-Projects/Avnet-Digilent-ZedBoard-2015.2/images/linux/vmlinux'
[ERROR] make[1]: *** [package-subsystem-FIT] Errore 255
ERROR: Failed to build linux.

Also, if I try to boot the prebuilt image with petalinux-boot --qemu --prebuilt 3 I get:

INFO: The image provided is a zImage

INFO: Set QEMU tftp to /home/lopez/Petalinux-Projects/Avnet-Digilent-ZedBoard-2015.2/images/linux
Uso: grep [OPZIONE]... MODELLO [FILE]...

Usare "grep --help" per ulteriori informazioni.

INFO: TCP PORT is free

INFO: Starting arm QEMU

INFO: qemu-system-aarch64 -L /opt/Xilinx/petalinux-v2015.2-final/etc/qemu -M arm-generic-fdt-plnx -machine linux=on -display none -kernel /tmp/tmp.NrxdGEgjgl -gdb tcp::9000 -dtb /tmp/tmp.pkk2bd9Zfu -tftp /home/lopez/Petalinux-Projects/Avnet-Digilent-ZedBoard-2015.2/images/linux

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Xilinx QEMU Jul 13 2015 04:08:08.

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qemu-system-aarch64: Unable to get size of device tree file '/tmp/tmp.pkk2bd9Zfu'

qemu-system-aarch64: Error: Unable to load Device Tree /tmp/tmp.pkk2bd9Zfu

I don't know if the error is connected to the wrong grep usage at the beginning of the flow.

Anybody can help? Much appreciated thanks

Giorgio

[amin_vision]

I have the same problem :(

[steven.welch@okstate.edu]

Did you find a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue.

Steven

[achutha]

I have tried using the zedboard BSP on RHEL6 and Petalinux  2015.2 and i don't see the issue.

What is the Linux distribution on which petalinux is installed in this case?

Regards,
Achutha

[hs2]

I had the same issue :(

But fortunately I found and fixed the problem after pretty lengthy investigation.

(petalinux-readelf missed libz.so.1)

Note that's related to an Ubuntu.x64 14.04 host system.

All in all you need to:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install lib32z1

to get 2015.2 installed (see this posting) and run it.

Good luck, HS2

[hs2]

Missed to mention that I was successfully using 2014.4 before and and the described packages are needed in addition for 2015.2.

HS2

[giorgio.lopez]

I'm sorry,

I am experiencing this on Ubuntu 14.04 as well but the installation of the two libraries didn't fix the issue.

I'm still having errors while running qemu on the prebuilt image or rebuilding the image

Giorgio Lopez

[hs2]

I didn't verify QEMU so maybe there are even more packages missing.

Try to find the qemu binaries e.g. using

'find <petalinux install dir>/tools -name *qemu*

and just invoke them to check if they launch successfully.

Good luck, HS2

[steven.welch@okstate.edu]

I am experiencing the problem on Ubuntu 14.04. It seems it may be a distribution specific problem.

[kmshaw_saic]

I'm also getting the "Invalid ELF file..." error. I'm running 2015.2 under Red Hat Enterprise 6.6. It's a custom design and not the Zedboard BSP.

Kevin

[steven.welch@okstate.edu]

I found that I have this problem on Ubuntu and Red Hat. I also found that by installing the i386 versions of a few libraries I was able to get everything working.

ncurses-dev:i386
libstdc++6:i386
libselinux1:i386
lib32ncurses5-dev

[ben.harris]

Also seeing this issue on custom hardware.

I'm using a VM to develop:

Guest System: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

Host System: Windows 7 Professional SP 1 64 bit

In the terminal output, I'm getting:

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 ...

[INFO ] package rootfs.cpio to /home/bharris/plnx/plnx.plnx/images/linux
[INFO ] Update and install vmlinux image
[INFO ] vmlinux linux/kernel
[INFO ] install linux/kernel
[INFO ] package zImage
[INFO ] zImage linux/kernel
[INFO ] install linux/kernel
[ERROR] ERROR: Unable to create FIT image
[ERROR] make[1]: *** [package-subsystem-FIT] Error 255
ERROR: Failed to build linux

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In build/build.log:

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 ...

[ALL ] kernel_loadaddr=$(grep -e "^CONFIG_SUBSYSTEM_MEMORY_.*_KERNEL_BASEADDR=" "/home/bharris/plnx/plnx.plnx/subsystems/linux/config" | head -n1 | cut -d "=" -f 2 ); [ ! -z "${kernel_loadaddr}" ] && kernel_loadaddr="--kernel_loadaddr ${kernel_loadaddr}";  .....
[ALL ] mkimage: Can't open /home/bharris/plnx/plnx.plnx/images/linux/image.ub.tmp: No such file or directory
[ERROR] ERROR: Unable to create FIT image
[ERROR] make[1]: *** [package-subsystem-FIT] Error 255
[ALL ] make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bharris/plnx/plnx.plnx/build/linux'
[ALL ] make: *** [package] Error 2
[ALL ] make: Leaving directory `/home/bharris/plnx/plnx.plnx/build/linux'

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I've attached the build.log. Has anyone else seen this kind of output and managed to resolve the problem?

I've tried the various package installation recommendations; none have worked so far. What's really bothering me is that I was using this system just a few days ago and it did several petalinux builds absolutely fine..

Cheers,

Ben

[hs2]

Dunno, but I'd try invoking all binaries here

.../petalinux-v2015.2-final/tools/linux-i386/petalinux/bin/unexport/

just to be really sure that there is no lib.so missing.

Regards, HS2

[kmshaw_saic]

>> I'm also getting the "Invalid ELF file..." error. I'm running 2015.2 under Red Hat Enterprise 6.6.

>> It's a custom design and not the Zedboard BSP.

I also tried this with the Vivado Zynq example design to rule out a problem with my custom design and I get the same error.

Kevin

[ben.harris]

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@hs2 wrote:

Dunno, but I'd try invoking all binaries here

.../petalinux-v2015.2-final/tools/linux-i386/petalinux/bin/unexport/

just to be really sure that there is no lib.so missing.

Regards, HS2

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Ah ha! plnxcrc32 seg faults on run. Thanks for the suggestion, just need to figure out what it wants now..

[masrut]

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@ben.harris wrote:

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@hs2 wrote:

Dunno, but I'd try invoking all binaries here

.../petalinux-v2015.2-final/tools/linux-i386/petalinux/bin/unexport/

just to be really sure that there is no lib.so missing.

Regards, HS2

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Ah ha! plnxcrc32 seg faults on run. Thanks for the suggestion, just need to figure out what it wants now..

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I have the same problem. I am running Petalinux 2015.2 on Virtualbox under latest Ubuntu.

Exactly the same issue as you. Same segmentation fault also. I tested also under CENTOS 7 and I find exactly the same issue. 

[kmshaw_saic]

This is what I did to fix the problem:

• Look at pages 9 and 10 of UG1144(v2015.2)
• Check that all libraries have been installed
• Install any missing libraries

Even though UG1144 states "The PetaLinux installation process checks for these packages, and reports an error if
any are missing." I had a few that were missing. Missing library "zlib.i686" was causing my error.

Kevin

[masrut]

I installed everything. And my petalinux installation says that nothing is missing....so I think that this problem might have multiple reasons. One reason is the library missing, but there must be some other hidden reason that we don't know...

[hpsebds]

I was having the same problem.  It started working after I changed /bin/sh to link to bash instead of dash (in addition to installing all the libraries mentioned previously).  It seems the build scripts must have a dependency on the bash extensions...

[ben.harris]

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@masrut wrote:

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@ben.harris wrote:

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@hs2 wrote:

Dunno, but I'd try invoking all binaries here

.../petalinux-v2015.2-final/tools/linux-i386/petalinux/bin/unexport/

just to be really sure that there is no lib.so missing.

Regards, HS2

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Ah ha! plnxcrc32 seg faults on run. Thanks for the suggestion, just need to figure out what it wants now..

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I have the same problem. I am running Petalinux 2015.2 on Virtualbox under latest Ubuntu.

Exactly the same issue as you. Same segmentation fault also. I tested also under CENTOS 7 and I find exactly the same issue. 

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I also tried CentOS under a VM however I found that mine worked after installing various SSL packages.. I wish I was able to offer some advice under Ubuntu but I've given up on trying to figure out what's missing.

[bobsmithba]

Did you find a solution.  I am new to peta-linux and I am having the same issue.  I did install the redhat-lsb package to solve the device-tree error but still have this issue.

Thanks,

Bob

[bobsmithba]

Still not working.  Using Centos 7,

install sslopeb-devel,  and zlib and zlib-devel   (zlib-devel-1.2.7-13.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do)

lib32stdc++6,  does not exist for centos 7.

Still looking for help.

[deffi]

You may want to try changing the locale to default (english) before calling petalinux-build or petalinux-boot:

unset LANG

This solved both the "Invalid ELF file" and the "Unable to get size of device tree" problem for me.

If any environment variables beginning with LC_ are set, you may have to unset them as well.

It seems like Xilinx never tested their products with a non-english locale; I've encountered similar issues with Vivado before.

Regards,

Martin

[soischshald]

@deffi: I have also the problem "ERROR: Invalid ELF file ..." when I build petalinux with command petalinux-build and your solution proposal solve my problem so I just will say thank you :-)

[jeffrey.johnson]

I had this same problem under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and these are the steps I took to eventually fix the problem (note that it was only after doing the last step that I was able to eliminate the error, but I'm listing all the steps I took for completeness):

1. I changed by default shell to bash (as discussed here)

2. I installed all of the required libraries as listed in the PetaLinux install guide (even though the installer did not flag any missing libraries, some of them were not installed)

3. I changed my locale to US english (was Canada english)

4. Installed the qemu-system-arm:i386 library using this command (as discussed here):

sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm:i386

[chenzhenyuch]

I have also met the same issue,the error log as belows:

root@ubuntu:/home/z/user/project_test# petalinux-build INFO: Checking component... INFO: Generating make files and build linux INFO: Generating make files for the subcomponents of linux INFO: Building linux [INFO ] build system.dtb [INFO ] build linux/kernel [INFO ] generate linux/u-boot configuration files [INFO ] update linux/u-boot source [INFO ] build linux/u-boot [INFO ] build zynq_fsbl [INFO ] Setting up stage config [INFO ] Setting up rootfs config [INFO ] Updating for cortexa9-vfp-neon [INFO ] Updating package manager [INFO ] Expanding stagefs [INFO ] build kernel in-tree modules [INFO ] modules linux/kernel [INFO ] install system.dtb [INFO ] install linux/kernel [INFO ] generate linux/u-boot configuration files [INFO ] update linux/u-boot source [INFO ] build linux/u-boot [INFO ] install linux/u-boot [INFO ] Expanding rootfs [INFO ] install sys_init [INFO ] install kernel in-tree modules [INFO ] modules_install linux/kernel [INFO ] package rootfs.cpio to /home/z/user/project_test/images/linux [INFO ] Update and install vmlinux image [INFO ] vmlinux linux/kernel [INFO ] install linux/kernel [INFO ] package zImage [INFO ] zImage linux/kernel [INFO ] install linux/kernel [ERROR] ERROR: Invalid ELF file '/home/z/user/project_test/images/linux/vmlinux' [ERROR] make[1]: *** [package-subsystem-FIT] Error 255 ERROR: Failed to build linux Then, I have installed the two package using this two CMD: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev sudo apt-get install lib32z1 Now I can build the petalinux project with no issue, logs: root@ubuntu:/home/z/user/project_test# petalinux-build INFO: Checking component... INFO: Generating make files and build linux INFO: Generating make files for the subcomponents of linux INFO: Building linux [INFO ] build linux/kernel [INFO ] generate linux/u-boot configuration files [INFO ] update linux/u-boot source [INFO ] build linux/u-boot [INFO ] build zynq_fsbl [INFO ] build kernel in-tree modules [INFO ] modules linux/kernel [INFO ] install system.dtb [INFO ] install linux/kernel [INFO ] generate linux/u-boot configuration files [INFO ] update linux/u-boot source [INFO ] build linux/u-boot [INFO ] install linux/u-boot [INFO ] install sys_init [INFO ] install kernel in-tree modules [INFO ] modules_install linux/kernel [INFO ] package rootfs.cpio to /home/z/user/project_test/images/linux [INFO ] Update and install vmlinux image [INFO ] vmlinux linux/kernel [INFO ] install linux/kernel [INFO ] package zImage [INFO ] zImage linux/kernel [INFO ] install linux/kernel [INFO ] Package HDF bitstream Hope that can resolve your problem