Touchbar stops working after reboot

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Touchbar stops working after reboot

Rom888 opened this issue a year ago · 44 comments

After this command it starts working:
sudo touchbar --restart

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr

Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[792]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[792]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[792]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[847]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[847]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb tiny-dfr[847]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 26 11:20:53 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 26 11:20:54 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Oct 26 11:20:54 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 26 11:20:54 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 26 11:20:54 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 26 11:20:54 mb systemd[1]: Failed to start tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

machine:

macOs: Ventura 13.2

Ubuntu 23.04
6.5.9-t2-lunar

MacBookPro16.1
Intel Core i9 2.3g

hybrid graphics:
Intel UHD graphics 630
AMD radeon pro 5500M

Rom888 commented a year ago

Yes

Answer 1 · 2023-10-26T15:37:52.000Z

Does running sudo touchbar --restart turn it on?

Answer 2 · 2023-10-26T15:43:35.000Z

Run this whole command:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=30
StartLimitBurst=2

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 3
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /usr/share/tiny-dfr/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=30
StartLimitBurst=2

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 3
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo touchbar --restart

Answer 3 · 2023-10-26T15:44:14.000Z

Then see if this is fixed or not

Answer 4 · 2023-10-26T15:50:42.000Z

It worked after the first reboot, but didn't work after the second.

Answer 5 · 2023-10-26T15:51:36.000Z

again, is is working if you run sudo tiny-dfr after second reboot?

Answer 6 · 2023-10-26T15:53:02.000Z

sudo tiny-dfr
or
sudo touchbar --restart
?

Answer 7 · 2023-10-26T15:53:17.000Z

Either works

Answer 8 · 2023-10-26T15:53:59.000Z

If yes, then try this. Note that it would delay the turning on of touchbar by 7 seconds, so be a bit patient.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=30
StartLimitBurst=2

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 7
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /usr/share/tiny-dfr/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=30
StartLimitBurst=2

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 7
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo touchbar --restart

Answer 9 · 2023-10-26T15:54:15.000Z

no, doesn't work after:
sudo touchbar --restart

Answer 10 · 2023-10-26T15:54:51.000Z

what does sudo tiny-dfr show.

Answer 11 · 2023-10-26T15:56:22.000Z

if I run
sudo tiny-dfr
touchbar stars working
but I don't get control back in the terminal, no response

Answer 12 · 2023-10-26T15:57:04.000Z

ctrl+c to get control of terminal (this will turn off the touchbar). And run the command I sent which delayed it by 7 seconds

Answer 13 · 2023-10-26T15:57:27.000Z

After running that command, restart.

Answer 14 · 2023-10-26T16:00:18.000Z

it doesn't work after reboot

Answer 15 · 2023-10-26T16:18:57.000Z

Has stop working after Ubuntu pkg update. Did you try to remove the config in /etc/tiny-drf.conf and reinstall the pkg?

Answer 16 · 2023-10-26T16:19:17.000Z

if you do this:

Run sudo systemctl disable --now tiny-dfr

Then restart. The touchbar won't turn on after restart.

Then run sudo systemctl enable --now tiny-dfr and wait for 10 sec, does touchbar turn on?

Answer 17 · 2023-10-26T16:22:07.000Z

Did you try to remove the config in /etc/tiny-drf.conf and reinstall the pkg?

No

Answer 18 · 2023-10-26T16:23:38.000Z

Try to remove and reinstall

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Answer 19 · 2023-10-26T16:24:16.000Z

make sure you remove /etc/tiny-dfr.conf.orj before you reinstall

sudo rm /etc/tiny-dfr.conf.orj
sudo apt remove tiny-dfr
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tiny-dfr

Answer 20 · 2023-10-26T16:27:59.000Z

I don't have /etc/tiny-dfr.conf.orj
only /etc/tiny-dfr.conf

Answer 21 · 2023-10-26T16:30:39.000Z

Reinstalled, touchbar starts working
then ran sudo systemctl disable --now tiny-dfr
then restarted, but the touchbar turned on after restart.

Answer 22 · 2023-10-26T16:44:40.000Z

So your problem is fixed now.

Answer 23 · 2023-10-26T16:59:03.000Z

I reconfigured it using touchbar --mode
and after that it doesn't work

$ sudo tiny-dfr
thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:620:53:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: TOML parse error at line 11, column 23
   |
11 | [layers.primary_layer = "special"
   |                       ^
invalid table header
expected `.`, `]`

note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Answer 24 · 2023-10-26T17:52:54.000Z

I see that in the /etc/tiny-dfr.conf the headers of the section doesn't close ']'

[time]
use_24_hr = 1

[layers.primary_layer = "specialextended"
buttons = [
    { label = "F1", key = "Key::F1", mode = "text" },
...

Answer 25 · 2023-10-26T18:23:37.000Z

BTW reverting back to tiny-dfr to 0.1.3-5 and sudo cp /etc/tiny-dfr.conf.orj /etc/tiny-dfr.conf restores the touchbar after reboot

Answer 26 · 2023-10-26T20:25:33.000Z

OK. I found the following:

when you install the new tiny-dfr, it puts the new config which is OK
you can change it manually and it immediately shows the changes in the touchbar (I changed the layers.tertiary2_layer_buttons to show F7-F12 buttons for the debugging my applications and it worked)
But when you try to modify the config with help of touchbar (like sudo touchbar --mode) it ruins the config.
First 2 sections received the names [layers.primary_layer = "specialextended" and [layers.secondary_layer = "function" (no closing brackets ']')

Answer 27 · 2023-10-26T20:55:42.000Z

I couldn't find where to put patch for touchbar. So here it is to fix the issue

--- touchbar_old        2023-10-26 16:41:03.569827697 -0400
+++ touchbar    2023-10-26 16:54:20.411835314 -0400
@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@

 echo -e "\nEnter the mode do you want to display by default on the touchbar:"
 get_mode
-sed -i "s/primary_layer.*/primary_layer = \"$mode\"/g" /etc/tiny-dfr.conf
+sed -i "s/primary_layer[ ]*=.*/primary_layer = \"$mode\"/g" /etc/tiny-dfr.conf
 echo -e "\nEnter the mode that you want to be displayed on the touchbar after pressing fn key:"
 get_mode
-sed -i "s/secondary_layer.*/secondary_layer = \"$mode\"/g" /etc/tiny-dfr.conf
+sed -i "s/secondary_layer[ ]*=.*/secondary_layer = \"$mode\"/g" /etc/tiny-dfr.conf
 cat <<EOF

Answer 28 · 2023-10-26T21:14:02.000Z

PR over here

https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/t2-ubuntu-repo/blob/main/.github/scripts/touchbar

Answer 29 · 2023-10-26T22:04:30.000Z

AdityaGarg8/t2-ubuntu-repo#8

Answer 30 · 2023-10-27T03:10:57.000Z

Check 0.1.4-2

Answer 31 · 2023-10-27T05:20:07.000Z

'touchbar --mode' works now

but the touchbar still doesn't work after reboot:

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[846]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[846]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[846]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[922]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[922]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb tiny-dfr[922]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:15:12 mb systemd[1]: Failed to start tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:15:14 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 27 08:15:14 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:15:14 mb systemd[1]: Failed to start tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

Answer 32 · 2023-10-27T05:31:58.000Z

Let's try this. In case the touchbar is not able to start on boot, it waits for 5 sec and starts it again, and in total makes 5 such attempts. So wait for a min after restarting.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /usr/share/tiny-dfr/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo touchbar --restart

Answer 33 · 2023-10-27T05:49:14.000Z

It started working, but it doesn't work after reboot.

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[860]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[860]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[860]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[924]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[924]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb tiny-dfr[924]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 08:44:52 mb systemd[1]: Failed to start tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

Answer 34 · 2023-10-27T05:49:44.000Z

Also having same errors with touchbar except it doesn't work at all for me. running Kubuntu.

Host: MacBookPro15,2 1.0
Kernel: 6.1.60-t2-mantic
Uptime: 7 mins
Packages: 2223 (dpkg)
Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1680x1050
DE: Plasma 5.27.8
WM: KWin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono 13
CPU: Intel i5-8279U (8) @ 4.100GHz
GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-U GT3e [Iris Plus Graphics 655]
Memory: 2104MiB / 15839MiB

Answer 35 · 2023-10-27T05:52:09.000Z

after reboot:

$ ls /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service
ls: cannot access '/etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service': No such file or directory

Answer 36 · 2023-10-27T05:54:08.000Z

after reboot:

$ ls /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service
ls: cannot access '/etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service': No such file or directory

Its /etc/systemd/system/tiny-dfr.service

Also, if you want only the F keys and media controls, you can switch to the older mode by sudo touchbar --switch

Answer 37 · 2023-10-27T05:56:20.000Z

Also having same errors with touchbar except it doesn't work at all for me. running Kubuntu.

Host: MacBookPro15,2 1.0 Kernel: 6.1.60-t2-mantic Uptime: 7 mins Packages: 2223 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.15 Resolution: 1680x1050 DE: Plasma 5.27.8 WM: KWin Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] Terminal: konsole Terminal Font: CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono 13 CPU: Intel i5-8279U (8) @ 4.100GHz GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-U GT3e [Iris Plus Graphics 655] Memory: 2104MiB / 15839MiB

You are using an LTS kernel, tiny-dfr won't work on that. Remove it by running sudo apt remove tiny-dfr

After removing, boot into macOS and then back to linux

Answer 38 · 2023-10-27T06:08:36.000Z

applied this (...systemd/system/tiny...):

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

After the first reboot everything is fine

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 08:58:54 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

After the second and third reboot it also works:

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

Answer 39 · 2023-10-27T06:10:51.000Z

applied this (...systemd/system/tiny...):

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/tiny-dfr.service
[Unit]
Description=Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service systemd-logind.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tiny-dfr
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

After the first reboot everything is fine

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 08:58:54 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

After the second and third reboot it also works:

$ journalctl --boot=0 | grep tiny-dfr
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: thread 'main' panicked at src/backlight.rs:46:40:
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: No backlight device found
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb tiny-dfr[833]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a
Oct 27 09:04:45 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: tiny-dfr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: Stopped tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.
Oct 27 09:04:50 mb systemd[1]: Started tiny-dfr.service - Tiny Apple silicon touch bar daemon.

Isn't this the same as I asked you to do before?

Answer 40 · 2023-10-27T06:14:20.000Z

You asked me this:
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/system/tiny-dfr.service

but it looks like it should be:
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/tiny-dfr.service

Answer 41 · 2023-10-27T06:15:21.000Z

Ooh my bad

Answer 42 · 2023-10-27T06:16:15.000Z

Make sure you do /usr/share/tiny-dfr/tiny-dfr.service as well

Answer 43 · 2023-10-27T06:18:01.000Z

Yes, I just copied it.