Blank screen - Chromium error

[AidanHak]

What were you doing?

Updated via sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade

The Pi loads up and then goes to a blank (black) screen.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected the page to load based on the URL I put into /boot/fullpageos.txt

What happened instead?

The Pi loads up and then goes to a blank (black) screen.

Was there an error message displayed? What did it say?

pi@OV-DIR-B:~/scripts $ chromium-browser
dpkg-query: no packages found matching bluealsa
[0201/105336.046106:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(61)] tag not found
Trace/breakpoint trap

Version of FullPageOS?

2022-01-26_2021-10-30-fullpageos-default-bullseye-armhf-lite-0.13.0 released on 2022-01-25 18:31

[Can be found in /etc/fullpageos_version ALWAYS INCLUDE.]

0.13.0

[AidanHak]

Here is a list of my configuration steps: sudo nano /boot/fullpageos.txt

sudo apt-get update

sudo raspi-config Set password, hostname Enable VNC Localisation Expand Filesystem

sudo reboot

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install unclutter

sudo nano /home/pi/scripts/start_chromium_browser Add --disable-component-update option

sudo touch /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/01-disable-update-check;echo CHROMIUM_FLAGS=\"\$\{CHROMIUM_FLAGS\} --check-for-update-interval=31536000\" | sudo tee /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/01-disable-update-check

sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile Edit the CONF_SWAPSIZE value to be 1000 or greater sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile start

sudo reboot

[AidanHak]

Update: After several reboots and troubleshooting, the problem seems to have resolved itself. I'm still curious what the issue was, and why it took so many reboots to get it to work.

[guysoft]

What version of FullPageOS are you using? Have you tried using the nightly build?

[AidanHak]

What version of FullPageOS are you using? Have you tried using the nightly build?

As I mentioned, I'm on the newest nightly build as of the time of the first post.

2022-01-26_2021-10-30-fullpageos-default-bullseye-armhf-lite-0.13.0 released on 2022-01-25 18:31

The system says this is version 0.13.0

[AidanHak]

To be clear, this seems to be an issue in older versions as well, which is what prompted me to re-image the Pi and update to the newest nightly build.

[guysoft]

Hey, So I just tested the 2022-02-02 nightly, and both splash screen and boot works. I had to flash twice, not sure why. This is from the rpi imager. The first boot took a while.

I am actually thinking of putting an RC of this The window is not full screen though. That needs to be fixed.

[MarcoBlulab]

Same problem, sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade The Pi loads and then goes indefinitely to a black screen. Still accessible via ssh but no out in HDMI

[srcastor]

Same problem here, I have tried to restart about 20 times in a row just to make sure and on 3 times the screen stays black just after the splash image, totally random, the web that I am running is hosted in the rPI and its an empty html

FullPageOS 0.12.0

[Kevinsky86]

Also running into:

pi@fullpageos:~/scripts $ ./start_chromium_browser dpkg-query: no packages found matching bluealsa [1117/165938.046830:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(61)] tag not found

Getting rid of bluealsa error seems pretty straightforward:

sudo apt install bluealsa

After doing this and a reboot it worked again on my RPI 3. Not sure why that would fix the issue.

[Kevinsky86]

@4o4forbidden In my case it booted to a "black screen" because Chromium didn't launch. So the OS launches just fine it's the browser part of the kiosk that will not start.

I don't know about it "sometimes" doing this, mine works just fine now. I've rebooted about 5 times to test without problem.

Edit:

I've rebooted a total of ten times now. Chromium indeed failed to start once. @guysoft needs to zoom in on this I think. I will continue to investigate this as a user, but having to reboot this thing an extra time every once in while is not really a big deal to me so i'm not going to sink too much time in this for now. Especially considering there should be a new release underway.

[jupe]

same here. doesn't work me either with "new pi4" ;

/scripts/start_chromium_browser 
dpkg-query: no packages found matching bluealsa

[jupe]

sudo apt install bluealsa

E: Package 'bluealsa' has no installation candidate

[jupe]

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=326608