no HDMI after some config change

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  1. sombunall

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    I just did a reinstall of ubuntu minimal on my quad and my HDMI was working for many reboots and then at one point my HDMI is not showing a tty anymore. I never touched /etc/uEnv.txt. I tried adding video_output=hdmi but nothing happened. I can SSH and everything else. How do I continue troubleshooting this?

    It could not be because I did this by remote in order to get urxvt working with tmux could it, it is specific to my custom user directory:

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    $ ssh remotemachine mkdir -p .terminfo/r
    $ scp /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode* remotemachine:.terminfo/r/
     
  2. sombunall

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    Forgot to say that the UDOO logo appears only for maybe 1/10 of a second now and then nothing from then on. Before it would show for a few seconds.
     
  3. sombunall

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    I just made some good progress!

    I had taken my previous /etc from a micro sd that was flaky so I started looking for suspicious files with rsync. I installed it and ran something like:

    # rsync --dry-run --delete -ia -c /old/etc/ /etc/

    I studied files looking mostly for "c" in the itemize telling me the checksums / hashes don't match. I found 2 suspect files: bsd-from and ld.so.cache. I did an apt-get remove purge bsdmainutils then apt-get install bsdmainutils man. Then I rm /etc/ld.so.cache then did just ldconfig to rebuild the system library cache (chances are video problem has to do with this cache file I think).

    Then I rebooted and saw the udoo logo for many seconds like before! But tty1 would not appear. I tried tty2 and it works (ctrl-alt-F2). All other tty that are not tty2 don't work. I didn't try the serial console yet.

    So how do I get all the other tty to appear?
     
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  4. sombunall

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    Also tty1 has no blinking cursor but tty3 and greater has just the blinking cursor and no text. tty2 is the only normal one. Strange.
     
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  5. sombunall

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    Nope. Systemd, which is now in debian and ubuntu, ignores inittab. I also appears the serial console for the USB-OTG is not spawned:


    Code:
    $ ls -l /etc/systemd/system/
    total 4
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May  4  2016 multi-user.target.wants
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 May 21 18:24 sshd.service -> /lib/systemd/system/ssh.service
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 May 21 18:24 syslog.service -> /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service
    
    Umm... bugs?
     
  7. waltervl

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    Udoobuntu minimal is the absolute minimal to get the Udoo running. So all extras have to be added manually and if this requires a recompile of the kernel you have to do it yourself. The Udoo team does not support (bug fixing) the minimal image.

    Perhaps a better option would be to use the normal Udoobuntu 2 image and switch off what you not need (graphical desktop mostly).
     
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  8. sombunall

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    waltervl UDOOer

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    I am sorry. I just looked at the documentation in the OS sections and it indeed doesn't state anywhere. On the Neo forum I remember these statements from the Udoo team.

    @Laura , perhaps an improvement suggestion to the documentation?
     
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  10. sombunall

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    Excellent! I have decided to move to Udoobuntu desktop. I connected to the serial console for the first time ever. I guess I could have tried to add a getty line myself but I decided to be more cautious and change the sub-distro as you suggested.
     
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    Also waltervl thanks for all your help in this! I am a fan. :D
     
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