Troubleshooting

Image generation

If you're having problems with image generation, try some of the following:

• Confirm that your workspace is correctly set up, and that your environment variables point to the correct directories (see “Prepare the work environment”).
• Check that you're using the necessary options when you run the mksysimage.py (see mksysimage.py) command.
• Run mksysimage.py with the -i. This option makes all files optional, so the build won't fail because of a missing file. When you use the -i option, it allows the build to complete, which can help you to identify the missing files and correct the problem (see “Making a file optional”).

For more information about build files, partitions and images, see the QNX SDP 7.0 Documentation.

Adding or modifying content

Adding a file to a fileset doesn't guarantee that the file is included in the final image. When you add a file to a fileset, you must also ensure that:

• the fileset is included in a profile (see “Profiles”)
• the profile file is included in the system configuration file (see Configuring Partitions and Images)
• the new file is located in a directory specified by the searchpaths.cfg file
• there isn't another file with the same name in a search path that is scanned before the path with the file you want (see “Search paths”)
• the new file's user, group and permissions are correctly defined (see “Users and groups”)