Troubleshooting

Image generation

If you are 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 are using the options you need for mksysimage (see mksysimage).
• Run mksysimage with the -i. This option makes all files optional, so the build won't fail becasue of a missing file. If using the -i allows the build to complete, 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 documentation.

Adding or modifying content

Adding a file to a fileset doesn't guarantee that the file will be included in the final image. When you add a file to a fileset, you must also make sure 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 is no other file with the same name in a search path that will be scanned before the path with your new file (see “Search paths”)
• the new file's user, group and permissions are correctly defined (see “Users and groups”)