Bug 4940

Summary:	XServer could not start with meta-intel layer, error msg is: "Read-only file system"
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto	Reporter:	Ning Zhang <ning.zhang>
Component:	meta-yocto	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Undecided	CC:	ke.zou, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, ross.burton, yi.zhao
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	x86_64
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Ning Zhang 2013-07-29 06:53:58 UTC

poky: master:67864ca79da08df752487a3a4e1a975546da123d
meta-intel:bd34513dc12c412f40328001c09fa5407041e912

Test reference: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Transcript:_Using_the_Yocto_BSP_tools_to_create_a_meta-intel_BSP

Test steps:
1. Create a new intel-x86-64 bsp "myintelbsp"
2. Added meta-intel and the new bsp into bblayers.conf 
3. bitbake core-image-sato, it will generate a "hddimg" image
4. burn the image to a usb disk. "dd if=core-image-sato-myintelbsp-20120317164555.hddimg of=/dev/sdb"
5. use the usb disk to boot up a x86-64 bit intel PC.

The X could not be started. It has below error messages:

Start XServer
mkdir: can't create directory '/var/lib/dropbear': Read-only file system
...
Staring Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon
..fail!


Many services could not be started because "Read-only file system"

I found Ross Burton committed a new patch: "Revert "initrdscripts: mount / as read-only when live-booting"", maybe this could fix this issue. But the commit did not merge to master branch now.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2013-07-29 14:45:57 UTC

Revert is now in master.