Unable to install the VOXL SDK

SMRazaRizvi

I am trying to install the VOXL SDK on my Sentinel drone.

Using the install.sh script inside the VOXL SDK download completes the flashing of the system image successfully but fails to install the voxl-suite by spitting out the following error.

Ign:4 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
Get:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
Get:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
Err:3 file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages ./ Packages
  File not found - /data/voxl-suite-offline-packages/./Packages (2: No such file or directory)
Reading package lists... Done
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages/./InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
E: Failed to fetch file:/data/voxl-suite-offline-packages/./Packages  File not found - /data/voxl-suite-offline-packages/./Packages (2: No such file or directory)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
[INFO] Installing packages on target
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package voxl-suite
ERROR failed to install voxl-suite
SUCCESS:cat: /tmp/success: No such file or directory

My guess is that there's something wrong with the apt sources listing inside /etc/apt/, as I see the same errors when I do sudo apt update inside the sentinel drone.

Can anyone please let me know how to solve this?
Or how can I retrieve the factory apt source files?

SMRazaRizvi

@SMRazaRizvi

UPDATE

I solved this issue by adding the following line inside the offline-install.sh at line 92

adb shell "cd $PKG_DIR/ && gunzip Packages.gz"

but then I am facing the following error while installing the voxl-suite

executing: voxl-esc setup_sentinel_v1 
enabling bridge
bridge enabled
[INFO] Scanning for ESC...
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
Received standard error event 2
Received standard error event 2
Couldn't configure flight_controller sensor
Error calling voxl_uart_init
[ERROR] Unknown board detected: 
disabling bridge
bridge disabled
EXITING VOXL-ESC WITH ERROR
FAILED TO EXECUTE: voxl-esc setup_sentinel_v1

And then eventually

         FAILED TO EXECUTE the following steps:
voxl-esc setup_sentinel_v1

      Encountered Problems Configuring MPA Services :-/
        Some Services may not start up on next reboot

checking /data/px4/param/parameters_gyro.cal
checking /data/px4/param/parameters_acc.cal
checking /data/px4/param/parameters_mag.cal
checking /data/px4/param/parameters_level.cal
Calibration File Status:
Present /data/modalai/voxl-imu-server.cal 
Present /data/modalai/opencv_tracking_intrinsics.yml 
Present /data/modalai/opencv_stereo_front_intrinsics.yml 
Present /data/modalai/opencv_stereo_front_extrinsics.yml 
Present /data/modalai/opencv_stereo_rear_intrinsics.yml 
Present /data/modalai/opencv_stereo_rear_extrinsics.yml 
Missing /data/px4/param/parameters_gyro.cal 
Missing /data/px4/param/parameters_acc.cal 
Missing /data/px4/param/parameters_mag.cal 
Missing /data/px4/param/parameters_level.cal 

Detected Missing Calibration Files
please run the required cals
https://docs.modalai.com/calibration/

                PLEASE POWER CYCLE YOUR VOXL

This does ends up with the installation of VOXL SDK, and I can even access the camera server, but there are issues with MPA and I am unable to connect to QGC.

Help please.

tom

@SMRazaRizvi I'm guessing your file system is corrupt in some way. I would do the following to fully wipe / re-flash your system:

cd voxl2_SDK_1.0.0
cd system-image
./flash-system-image.sh -f

cd ..
cd voxl-suite
./offline-install.sh

SMRazaRizvi

@tom Thanks. This worked in successfully installing the voxl-suite

Still, I'm facing further issues.

For some reason, all the services were Disabled and Not Running when I checked through voxl-inspect-services. Is this normal?

I manually enabled and started some, as shown below, but I am unable to start the voxl-vision-hub and the voxl-qvio-server services. How can I bring them up?

SMRazaRizvi

@SMRazaRizvi

UPDATE

voxl-configure-mpa solved this particular issue.

Following these instructions.