Show black screen when booting up RPI Lite

[cycool29]

Using Raspberry Pi OS, download and boot RPI Lite image from Pi Power Tools. When clicking the Boot button, the Boot console showed up.

The Boot console output

``` Current config: VDESKTOP_BOOT_MODE: gui VDESKTOP_UMOUNT_ON_EXIT: yes VDESKTOP_USERNAME: pi VDESKTOP_PASSWORD: raspberry VDESKTOP_AUTO_LOGIN: yes VDESKTOP_MOUNTPOINT: /media/pi/vdesktop VDESKTOP_ENABLE_ROOTMOUNT: yes VDESKTOP_ENABLE_VIRGL: no VDESKTOP_LOCAL_BINARIES: yes VDESKTOP_NSPAWN_FLAGS: Message from Botspot: Comments >/dev/null. Just kidding! Questions or suggestions? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?&t=251757 Given /home/pi/ppt-dl-2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img, running in disk image mode. Here's the loop device for it: /dev/loop9 Mounted /media/pi/vdesktop/etc/chromium-browser/customizations/noxshm Mounted /media/pi/vdesktop/etc/chromium-browser/customizations/disable-gpu Booting in 5 seconds spawn /home/pi/Pi-Power-Tools/vdesktop/nspawn /home/pi/Pi-Power-Tools/vdesktop/systemd-nspawn-32 /media/pi/vdesktop Spawning container vdesktop on /media/pi/vdesktop. Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container. systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid) Detected virtualization systemd-nspawn. Detected architecture arm. Welcome to Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)! Set hostname to . [ OK ] Started Dispatch Password …ts to Console Directory Watch. [ OK ] Reached target Swap. [ OK ] Listening on Journal Socket. Starting Set the console keyboard layout... [ OK ] Created slice system-getty.slice. [ OK ] Listening on initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. [ OK ] Listening on Journal Socket (/dev/log). [ OK ] Listening on Syslog Socket. Starting Restore / save the current clock... [ OK ] Started Forward Password R…uests to Wall Directory Watch. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Created slice User and Session Slice. [ OK ] Reached target Slices. [ OK ] Reached target Local Encrypted Volumes. Mounting FUSE Control File System... Starting Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown... systemd-journald.service: Attaching egress BPF program to cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/system.slice/systemd-journald.service failed: Invalid argument Starting Journal Service... Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems... [UNSUPP] Starting of /dev/serial1 not supported. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Conf…ooth Modems connected by UART. hciuart.service: Job hciuart.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Mounting RPC Pipe File System... [ OK ] Started Journal Service. [ OK ] Started Set the console keyboard layout. [ OK ] Started Restore / save the current clock. [ OK ] Mounted FUSE Control File System. [ OK ] Started Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown. [FAILED] Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. See 'systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service' for details. [ OK ] Mounted RPC Pipe File System. Starting Create System Users... Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage... [ OK ] Started Create System Users. Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev... [ OK ] Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev. [ OK ] Reached target Local File Systems (Pre). [ OK ] Reached target Local File Systems. Starting Set console font and keymap... Starting Raise network interfaces... Starting Preprocess NFS configuration... [ OK ] Started Flush Journal to Persistent Storage. Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories... [ OK ] Started Preprocess NFS configuration. [ OK ] Started Set console font and keymap. [ OK ] Reached target NFS client services. [ OK ] Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre). [ OK ] Reached target Remote File Systems. [ OK ] Started Create Volatile Files and Directories. Starting Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown... [ OK ] Reached target System Time Synchronized. [ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown. [ OK ] Reached target System Initialization. [ OK ] Started Daily man-db regeneration. [ OK ] Listening on triggerhappy.socket. [ OK ] Listening on Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket. [ OK ] Started Daily rotation of log files. [ OK ] Started Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories. [ OK ] Started Daily apt download activities. [ OK ] Started Daily apt upgrade and clean activities. [ OK ] Reached target Timers. [ OK ] Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket. [ OK ] Reached target Sockets. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Starting Login Service... Starting LSB: Resize the r…ilesystem to fill partition... Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... Starting Check for Raspberry Pi EEPROM updates... Starting dphys-swapfile - …unt, and delete a swap file... Starting rng-tools.service... Starting System Logging Service... [ OK ] Started D-Bus System Message Bus. Starting WPA supplicant... [ OK ] Started Regular background program processing daemon. Starting LSB: Switch to on…nless shift key is pressed)... Starting dhcpcd on all interfaces... Starting triggerhappy global hotkey daemon... [ OK ] Started System Logging Service. [FAILED] Failed to start rng-tools.service. See 'systemctl status rng-tools.service' for details. [ OK ] Started triggerhappy global hotkey daemon. [ OK ] Started WPA supplicant. [ OK ] Started Login Service. [ OK ] Started Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack. [FAILED] Failed to start dphys-swap…mount, and delete a swap file. See 'systemctl status dphys-swapfile.service' for details. [ OK ] Started Raise network interfaces. [ OK ] Started Check for Raspberry Pi EEPROM updates. [FAILED] Failed to start LSB: Resiz… filesystem to fill partition. See 'systemctl status resize2fs_once.service' for details. [ OK ] Started LSB: Switch to ond…(unless shift key is pressed). [ OK ] Started dhcpcd on all interfaces. [ OK ] Reached target Network. Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility... Starting Permit User Sessions... My IP address is 192.168.1.20 10.6.0.1 172.17.0.1 169.254.204.37 2001:e68:5400:c92b:c115:f281:93ab:e8a [ OK ] Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility. [ OK ] Started Permit User Sessions. [ OK ] Started Console Getty. [ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts. [ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System. [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface. Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes... [ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes. Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 raspberrypi console raspberrypi login: pi Password: Last login: Thu Oct 7 17:37:40 +08 2021 on pts/0 Linux raspberrypi 5.10.63-v7l+ #1457 SMP Tue Sep 28 11:26:14 BST 2021 armv7l The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. sudo: update-icon-caches: command not found pi@raspberrypi:~ $ Guest X server started. Running... ```

After that a black Vdesktop window appears.

But this last for a few hours, still in black...

[cycool29]

Well I am new to Vdesktop and also Pi Power Tool, sorry if this is a stupid issue.

[cycool29]

Just tested with USB mode, same result.

[Botspot]

RPiOS Lite does not have a desktop. It doesn't include xorg packages, because, well, it's the Lite variant of the OS. Therefore, nothing will appear in the window. You can prevent the black window from appearing by adding the cli flag to the vdesktop command you're using. (Or if you're using PPT, I believe there's a setting to boot to "Console - autologin".

[Botspot]

If you want to interact with a desktop session then download Raspberry Pi OS. (not lite)

[cycool29]

RPiOS Lite does not have a desktop. It doesn't include xorg packages, because, well, it's the Lite variant of the OS. Therefore, nothing will appear in the window.

Wow I don't even know Lite don't have a GUI. I will try again with standard RPi OS.

[cycool29]

Woohoo now it worked! Thanks @Botspot

[Botspot]

Woohoo now it worked! Thanks @Botspot

Excellent! Have fun with vdesktop.