<div dir="ltr">Yep; but the failure in kpartx didn't seem specific to local vs remote snaps.<div> </div><div>For people on the list, I followed up on IRC and Yann was running into weird issues with kpartx and ext4 in his environments, but from a clean Ubuntu vm things worked and that's a viable solution for now.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>- Loïc</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Simon Fels <<a href="mailto:simon.fels@canonical.com" target="_blank">simon.fels@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 31.08.2016 12:16, Loïc Minier wrote: > Works for me: > > $ sudo -E UBUNTU_DEVICE_FLASH_IGNORE_UNSTABLE_GADGET_DEFINITION=1 > /snap/bin/ubuntu-device-flash --verbose core 16 -o snappy.img --channel > edge --gadget pc --kernel pc-kernel --os ubuntu-core Yann is trying to use a gadget snap which isn't in the store but placed on the local disk. So I suspect he is running something like $ sudo -E UBUNTU_DEVICE_FLASH_IGNORE_UNSTABLE_GADGET_DEFINITION=1 /snap/bin/ubuntu-device-flash ... --gadget /home/user/my-gadget.snap ... regards, Simon > Determining gadget configuration > > 836.00 KB / 836.00 KB [==================================] 100.00% > 12.77 MB/s 0 > > Partitioning... > > Formatting... > > Mounting... > > Provisioning... > > 74.40 MB / 74.40 MB [===================================] 100.00% 24.02 > MB/s 3s > > 74.40 MB / 74.40 MB [===================================] 100.00% 59.46 > MB/s 1s > > 110.54 MB / 110.54 MB [=================================] 100.00% 23.19 > MB/s 4s > > 836.00 KB / 836.00 KB [==================================] 100.00% > 68.23 MB/s 0 > > Unmounting... > > New image complete > > Summary: > > Output: snappy.img > > Architecture: amd64 > > Channel: edge > > Version: 0 > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Yann Sionneau <div><div class="h5">> <<a href="mailto:yann.sionneau@parrot.com">yann.sionneau@parrot.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:yann.sionneau@parrot.com">yann.sionneau@parrot.com</a>>> wrote: > > > > Le 08/31/2016 à 10:56 AM, Simon Fels a écrit : > > On 31.08.2016 10:49, Yann Sionneau wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> It seems the new (snapp'ed) ubuntu-device-flash cannot use my own gadget > >> snap anymore. > >> > >> yann@imperium$ sudo -E /snap/bin/ubuntu-device-flash --verbose core 16 > >> -o snappy.img --channel edge --gadget $PWD/../../../xxx_2.0_all.snap > >> --kernel ../../../xxx_kernel/xxx-kernel_3.10.97_armhf.snap --os > >> ubuntu-core --developer-mode --enable-ssh > >> cannot use > >> "/home/yann/dev/snappy_xxx/tools/snappy/xxx_image/../../../xxx_2.0_all.snap", > >> must be one of: ["canonical-i386" "canonical-pc" "pc" "canonical-pi2" > >> "pi2" "pi3" "canonical-dragon" "dragonboard" "beagleblack" "plano-amd64"] > >> > >> Is porting Snappy on non official devices not supported anymore? > > No, that is not the case. > > > >> How is it supposed to work now? I must confess that I am blocked in my > >> work because of this change, I cannot generate nor flash images anymore > >> and my project is thus stalled :/ > > We're currently in a phase where ubuntu-device-flash is still being used > > but the future will be a new tool called ubuntu-image which will allow > > you to create images in a much better way. > Yes I've heard of the new ubuntu-image tool. It's a good idea to make > this new tool! > It's just important I think that the old tools stay functional until the > new ones are ready. > > > > From what I got from Michael a lot things are currently hard coded > > inside ubuntu-device-flash. See [1] for the relevant code bits. > > > > You can override the sanity check for the gadget names with setting > > UBUNTU_DEVICE_FLASH_IGNORE_UNSTABLE_GADGET_DEFINITION=1 in the command > > line you're executing. Didn't tested this but maybe Michael can comment > > how this should work. > Ok, the environment variable works, thanks a lot! > Now I get this: > > error while executing external command mkfs.ext4 -F -L writable > /dev/mapper/loop3p2: mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) > Invalid filesystem option set: > has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,metadata_csum,64bit,dir_nlink,extra_isize > > any idea? > > > > > regards, > > Simon > > > > [1]: > > > <a href="https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/goget-ubuntu-touch/minimal-first-boot-no-prepare-image/view/head:/ubuntu-device-flash/snappy.go#L116" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/goget-ubuntu-touch/minimal-first-boot-no-prepare-image/view/head:/ubuntu-device-flash/snappy.go#L116</a> > <<a href="https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/goget-ubuntu-touch/minimal-first-boot-no-prepare-image/view/head:/ubuntu-device-flash/snappy.go#L116" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/goget-ubuntu-touch/minimal-first-boot-no-prepare-image/view/head:/ubuntu-device-flash/snappy.go#L116</a>> > > > > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list </div></div>> <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a>> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft</a> > <<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft</a>> > > > > > -- > - Loïc > > -- Snapcraft mailing list <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">- Loïc</div></div> </div>