Beagle Bone with FC19

[Steve Underwood]

Hi,

There is a Fedora 19 image for the Beaglebone Black at 
http://parasense.fedorapeople.org, but I'm not sure how to use it. When 
copied to an SD card it boots into the MATE desktop OK, as the user 
"guest". However, root seems to have a password, which I can't find 
documented, so I can't much further than just doodling with things.

Regards,
Steve

[Jon]

The root password is not set.

The guest user should have sudo privileged enabled (member of the
wheel group), so you should be able to perform your privileged tasks.

Alternatively you may set the root password by mounting the rootfs
from another computer (or from inside Angstrom), and manually alter
/etc/shadow.

You should know that I'm planning to retire the beaglebone black remix
soon, once Fedora has a booting kernel the remix will become
irrelevant.

Regards,
-Jon Disnard
fas: parasense
irc: masta

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  There is a Fedora 19 image for the Beaglebone Black at
>  http://parasense.fedorapeople.org, but I'm not sure how to use it. When
>  copied to an SD card it boots into the MATE desktop OK, as the user "guest".
>  However, root seems to have a password, which I can't find documented, so I
>  can't much further than just doodling with things.
>
>  Regards,
>  Steve
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-Jon

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Jon,

Silly me. I really should have tried sudo. Now I have a usable system.

Thanks a lot for providing this image file. I think this setup should be 
good enough for me until Fedora 20 appears. I just want a nice familiar 
Fedora environment to work in as I develop some neon code.

Regards,
Steve


On 08/26/2013 02:29 AM, Jon wrote:
>  The root password is not set.
>
>  The guest user should have sudo privileged enabled (member of the
>  wheel group), so you should be able to perform your privileged tasks.
>
>  Alternatively you may set the root password by mounting the rootfs
>  from another computer (or from inside Angstrom), and manually alter
>  /etc/shadow.
>
>  You should know that I'm planning to retire the beaglebone black remix
>  soon, once Fedora has a booting kernel the remix will become
>  irrelevant.
>
>  Regards,
>  -Jon Disnard
>  fas: parasense
>  irc: masta
>
>  On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org&gt; wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a Fedora 19 image for the Beaglebone Black at
> > http://parasense.fedorapeople.org, but I'm not sure how to use it. When
> > copied to an SD card it boots into the MATE desktop OK, as the user
> "guest".
> > However, root seems to have a password, which I can't find documented, so I
> > can't much further than just doodling with things.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> > _______________________________________________
> > arm mailing list
> > arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
>
>

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Jon,

When I do a yum update on an Beaglebone Black using your Fedora 19 image 
I get the following issue:

error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/sbin/mtr: cpio: cap_set_file

when the mtr RPM updates. I get similar errors with the rsh and systemd 
RPMS. Do you know if something in the way your kernel is built will 
prevent cap_set_file from working?

Regards,
Steve

On 08/26/2013 02:29 AM, Jon wrote:
>  The root password is not set.
>
>  The guest user should have sudo privileged enabled (member of the
>  wheel group), so you should be able to perform your privileged tasks.
>
>  Alternatively you may set the root password by mounting the rootfs
>  from another computer (or from inside Angstrom), and manually alter
>  /etc/shadow.
>
>  You should know that I'm planning to retire the beaglebone black remix
>  soon, once Fedora has a booting kernel the remix will become
>  irrelevant.
>
>  Regards,
>  -Jon Disnard
>  fas: parasense
>  irc: masta
>
>  On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org&gt; wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a Fedora 19 image for the Beaglebone Black at
> > http://parasense.fedorapeople.org, but I'm not sure how to use it. When
> > copied to an SD card it boots into the MATE desktop OK, as the user
> "guest".
> > However, root seems to have a password, which I can't find documented, so I
> > can't much further than just doodling with things.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> > _______________________________________________
> > arm mailing list
> > arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
>
>

[Jon]

This is because the kernel (which was taken from Angstrom release)
does not have all the configuration options Fedora needs.

Stuff like ACLs, xattrs, or whatever else.... stuff that relates to
filesystem capabilities.

It's probably best to update the Beaglebone black remix inside a
chroot from another system, or not at all. =(

We are working on getting the mainline kernel to boot BBB with all the
proper fedora configs merged, at which point I'll retire the remix.

(it's very poor of me to make available such a fragile remix in the first place)

My apologies,

-Jon Disnard


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi Jon,
>
>  When I do a yum update on an Beaglebone Black using your Fedora 19 image I
>  get the following issue:
>
>  error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/sbin/mtr: cpio: cap_set_file
>
>  when the mtr RPM updates. I get similar errors with the rsh and systemd
>  RPMS. Do you know if something in the way your kernel is built will prevent
>  cap_set_file from working?
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Steve
>
>  On 08/26/2013 02:29 AM, Jon wrote:
> >
> > The root password is not set.
> >
> > The guest user should have sudo privileged enabled (member of the
> > wheel group), so you should be able to perform your privileged tasks.
> >
> > Alternatively you may set the root password by mounting the rootfs
> > from another computer (or from inside Angstrom), and manually alter
> > /etc/shadow.
> >
> > You should know that I'm planning to retire the beaglebone black remix
> > soon, once Fedora has a booting kernel the remix will become
> > irrelevant.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Jon Disnard
> > fas: parasense
> > irc: masta
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org&gt;
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There is a Fedora 19 image for the Beaglebone Black at
> >> http://parasense.fedorapeople.org, but I'm not sure how to use it. When
> >> copied to an SD card it boots into the MATE desktop OK, as the user
> >> "guest".
> >> However, root seems to have a password, which I can't find documented, so
> >> I
> >> can't much further than just doodling with things.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Steve
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> arm mailing list
> >> arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
> >
> >
> >
>  


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-Jon

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jon <jdisnard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  This is because the kernel (which was taken from Angstrom release)
>  does not have all the configuration options Fedora needs.
>
>  Stuff like ACLs, xattrs, or whatever else.... stuff that relates to
>  filesystem capabilities.
>
>  It's probably best to update the Beaglebone black remix inside a
>  chroot from another system, or not at all. =(
>
>  We are working on getting the mainline kernel to boot BBB with all the
>  proper fedora configs merged, at which point I'll retire the remix.
>  
Which I'm secretly hoping will sort of be working by F-20 alpha. I'm been
bashing away at AM33xx/OMAP issues in the 3.11 kernel for the last 3-4 days
with very little headway but OMAP3 (Beagle xM) is at least now booting on
3.11 and I've had the BBone White booting but there's still issues with the
MMC so there's been a little headway but we're not there yet.

Peter