Trouble with the linaro image tools on Debian wheezy

Do you have udisks package installed?

I've just uploaded 2011.08 to Debian. I had to force python2.7 as well and increase the sleep time after sfdisk.
You can give it a try: http://people.debian.org/~fabo/linaro-image-tools_2011.08-1/

As a work-around, you should be able to create an image using --image_file option and dd the file.

Hi,

It looks like you don't have the "udisks" package installed, which
linaro-media-create depends on when working with external media.

It's not a Gnome service, it's a system service that is a thin layer on
top of udev for providing a storage-related API.

Thanks,

James

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:30:22 -0000, Zach Pfeffer <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I run Debian 'testing' (wheezy) and have trouble with the linaro image
> tools. A minor problem seems to be that python-parted only gets built
> for python 2.7, so I have to manually run that version. Not a big
> deal. But, then:
>
> davidb@huya:~/linaro% sudo python2.7 linaro-image-tools/linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sde --dev panda --hwpack hwpack_linaro-lt-panda_20110920-0_armel_supported.tar.gz --binary nano-n-tar-20110920-0.tar.gz
> [sudo] password for davidb:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "linaro-image-tools/linaro-media-create", line 138, in <module>
> args.nocheck_mmc):
> File "/home/davidb/linaro/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/media_create/check_device.py", line 125, in confirm_device_selection_and_ensure_it_is_ready
> if _does_device_exist(device):
> File "/home/davidb/linaro/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/media_create/check_device.py", line 58, in _does_device_exist
> bus, udisks = _get_system_bus_and_udisks_iface()
> File "/home/davidb/linaro/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/media_create/check_device.py", line 34, in _get_system_bus_and_udisks_iface
> bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.UDisks", "/org/freedesktop/UDisks"),
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
> follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 246, in __init__
> self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
> self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
> 'su', (bus_name, flags)))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
> message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
>
> I think it's trying to ask dbus about the device, but assumes some
> kind of service running. I don't use Gnome (I don't want to use
> gnome), and perhaps this is some Gnome service. Tying the image tools
> to the gui seems kind of odd.
>
> BTW, if I just 'return True' in the
> confirm_device_selection_and_ensure_it_is_ready it goes through a lot
> of steps and then bombs with another error trying to get a device.
>
> (As a side issue, there doesn't seem to be any way of specyfing a proxy server
> to be used in the chroot. We have direct internet access, but it goes through
> an evil webwasher, and without a proxy, fetches are very slow.)
>
> I was able to work around this by getting the size of my device, and
> making to an image instead of directly to the device.
>
> David
>
> --
> Sent by ...

Do you have udisks installed? l-m-c is known to require udisks when
writing to an sdcard, but it doesn't need that when writing to an image
file.

Maybe linaro-image-tools should recommend udisks?

NB: The deps are a bit messy between linaro-image-tools and python-linaro-image-tools, but I think only linaro-image-tools uses python-linaro-image-tools right now anyway.

This bug was fixed in the package linaro-image-tools - 2011.07-0ubuntu2

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linaro-image-tools (2011.07-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Let linaro-image-tools Recommend udisks; LP: #856671.
 -- Loic Minier <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:49:45 +0200