Troubleshooting and FAQ¶

General¶

Network Connectivity¶

When debugging network connectivity and access issues, it can be helpful to use curl. However, LmP does not ship with the command.

Rather than including curl on the host device, a simple approach is to run it via a Alpine Linux container.

Request Entity Too Large¶

This error occurs when your Factory has accumulated too much Target metadata to be signed by TUF. This happens because the targets.json containing all of your Targets that is associated with your Factory grows large over time:

Signing local TUF targets
== 2020-11-24 23:12:53 Running: garage-sign targets sign --repo /root/tmp.dNLAIH
--key-name targets
|  signed targets.json to /root/tmp.dNLAIH/roles/targets.json
|--
Publishing local TUF targets to the remote TUF repository
== 2020-11-24 23:12:55 Running: garage-sign targets push --repo /root/tmp.dNLAIH
|  An error occurred
|  com.advancedtelematic.libtuf.http.SHttpjServiceClient$HttpjClientError:
ReposerverHttpClient|PUT|http/413|https://api.foundries.io/ota/repo/magicman//api/v1/user_repo/targets|<html>
|  <head><title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title></head>
|  <body>
|  <center><h1>413 Request Entity Too Large</h1></center>
|  <hr><center>nginx/1.19.3</center>
|  </body>
|  </html>

Solution¶

Pruning (deletion) of Targets is a manual maintenance procedure you must consider when creating Targets over time.

The solution is to prune the Targets that you no longer need using Fioctl. This removes these targets from the targets.json associated with your Factory, allowing the production of new Targets.

Warning

Ensure there are no important devices running on a Target that is about to be pruned. If you are intending on pruning master, be careful and make sure you know what you are doing.

You can individually prune/delete targets by their Target number:

fioctl targets prune <target_number>

Or, you can prune by tag, such as devel or experimental:

fioctl targets prune --by-tag <tag>

Aktualizr-Lite Pruning Containers¶

By default, aktualizr-lite will prune Docker containers periodically. If this behavior is undesirable, it can be worked around by adding aktualizr-lite-no-prune as a label to Docker containers, or by adding docker_prune = "0" to the [pacman] section of /var/sota/sota.toml on a given device.

LABEL aktualizr-lite-no-prune

Note

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#label

Aktualizr-lite and fioconfig Polling Time¶

fioconfig and aktualizr-lite poll for new configuration and updates every 5 minutes by default. It might be helpful to decrease this interval for development purposes. Here are some ways to achieve this.

Changing interval in runtime¶

1. On your device, create a settings file in the /etc/sota/conf.d/ folder to configure aktualizr-lite:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/sota/conf.d/
sudo sh -c 'printf "[uptane]\npolling_sec = <time-sec>" > /etc/sota/conf.d/90-sota-fragment.toml'

2. Next, create a settings file in the /etc/default/ folder to configure fioconfig:

sudo sh -c 'printf "DAEMON_INTERVAL=<time-sec>" > /etc/default/fioconfig'

Restart both services:

sudo systemctl restart aktualizr-lite
sudo systemctl restart fioconfig

Note

Make sure to replace <time-sec> with the expected poll interval in seconds.

Changing interval in the build¶

Create the sota-fragment folder in meta-subscriber-overrides repo:

cd meta-subscriber-overrides
mkdir -p recipes-sota/sota-fragment

Add a new file under this directory:

touch recipes-sota/sota-fragment/sota-fragment_0.1.bb

Include the content below to the file created in the last step:

SUMMARY = "SOTA configuration fragment"
SECTION = "base"
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"

inherit allarch

SRC_URI = " \
        file://90-sota-fragment.toml \
"

S = "${WORKDIR}"

do_install() {
        install -m 0700 -d ${D}${libdir}/sota/conf.d
        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/90-sota-fragment.toml ${D}${libdir}/sota/conf.d/90-sota-fragment.toml
}

FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/sota/conf.d/90-sota-fragment.toml"

4. Create another directory under the one we just created so we can supply the source file (90-sota-fragment.toml) for the recipe above:

cd meta-subscriber-overrides
mkdir -p recipes-sota/sota-fragment/sota-fragment

Create the 90-sota-fragment.toml file under this new directory:
```
[uptane]
polling_sec = <time-sec>
```

Note

Make sure to replace <time-sec> with the expected poll interval in seconds.

Platform Customizing¶

Changing kernel command line args¶

For DISTRO=lmp, the kernel command line can be extended by setting OSTREE_KERNEL_ARGS in meta-subscriber-overrides/conf/machine/include/lmp-factory-custom.inc:

OSTREE_KERNEL_ARGS_<machine> = "console=${console} <new-args> ${OSTREE_KERNEL_ARGS_COMMON}"

Make sure you set the correct <machine> and other variables as needed.

Note

By default OSTREE_KERNEL_ARGS_COMMON ?= "root=LABEL=otaroot rootfstype=ext4". This variable is responsible for setting a valid root label for the device. It is not necessarily needed on devices specifying the partition path directly with root=.

Now, if DISTRO=lmp-base is set, the kernel command line can be extended by appending commands to bootcmd_args in meta-subscriber-overrides/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-base-scr/<machine>/uEnv.txt.in, for example:

bootcmd_args=setenv bootargs console=tty1 console=${console} root=/dev/mmcblk2p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw <new-args>

Reference for bbappend for this file:

meta-subscriber-overrides/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-base-scr.bbappend:

FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"

Note

If testing a reference board supported in meta-lmp, the original uEnv.txt.in file can be found in meta-lmp/meta-lmp-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-base-scr/<machine>/uEnv.txt.in.

Adding a new systemd startup service¶

The LmP uses systemd for service management. Here are some basic instructions for adding a shell script startup systemd service.

Note

Make sure to replace <service-name> accordingly through the instructions below.

Create a directory for your service in meta-subscriber-overrides repo:
```
recipes-support/<service-name>
```
Add a new file under this directory:
```
<service-name>_0.1.bb
```

3. Include the content below to the file created in the last step. Feel free to add your changes if you are already familiar with Yocto Project.

SUMMARY = "Description of your service"
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"

inherit allarch systemd

SRC_URI = " \
        file://<service-name>.service \
        file://<service-name>.sh \
"

S = "${WORKDIR}"

PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"

SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "<service-name>.service"
SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} = "enable"

do_install () {
        install -d ${D}${bindir}
        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/<service-name>.sh ${D}${bindir}/<service-name>.sh

        install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/<service-name>.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
}

FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_system_unitdir}/<service-name>.service"
FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system-preset"

4. Create another directory under the one we just created so we can supply the source files for the recipe above:

recipes-support/<service-name>/<service-name>

Create the <service-name>.service service file under this new directory:

[Unit]
Description=A description of your service
After=rc-local.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
LimitNOFILE=1024
ExecStart=/usr/bin/<service-name>.sh
RemainAfterExit=true
Environment=HOME=/home/root

Create the <service-name>.sh script under this new directory:

#!/bin/sh
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache 2.0
#
# Copyright (c) 2021, Foundries.io Ltd.

# NOTE: This script will always exit with 0 result as other services
# are dependent on it.

# break on errors
set -e

echo "Hello World"
exit 0

From here you can customize the startup script as needed.