sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: no such file or directory

[reboun]

Result of 'sudo edit-chroot -all':

name: xenial
encrypted: no
Entering /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial...
crouton: version 1-20221126232257~master:ae594340
release: xenial
architecture: amd64
targets: xfce
host: version 15373.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel octopus 
kernel: Linux localhost 4.14.254-20300-g04f9d4e19110 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 4 20:21:26 PST 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial...

I am very new to this stuff, so please be nice about it.

I keep having this issue and I cannot install a chroot:

sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory
Failed to complete chroot setup.
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial...

[Qwer-TeX]

I have the same issue. I'm pretty sure some people have this issue.

[GamerX999999999]

Same problem. I tried to install bionic and it gave me the same error
sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory Failed to complete chroot setup. Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/bionic... Sending SIGTERM to processes under /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/bionic...

[drinkcat]

Yeah, the header files moved to include. There'll be bigger problems down the line here, that could be fixed by:
#4959

I wonder if we can just extract the src/include directory in src/cras/common and hope it works...

[drinkcat]

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/adhd/+/4242301 this broke it.

[drinkcat]

You could try this PR, second commit might fix it: 0d48e40

(none of this is tested -- at all)

[farkas93]

Hey guys, I am facing the same issue if I simply follow the readme. Was this issue resolved in any commit? Is it worth the hussle to try to build it from source? If anyone has tried yet, I'd appreciate the feedback :)

[NateTheClickbait]

I also got the software today and the code looks like it will work but I don't know how to use the code or " build it from the source" I would appreciate any help I can get.

[francorv961]

Hi guys! I have a similar problem. I have a Chromebook and I want to install ubuntu with xfce, but when I want to install crouton I have the next message:
sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory
Failed to complete chroot setup.
I hope you can help me. Thanks

[calvinxp]

I have the same issue

sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory
Failed to complete chroot setup.
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial...

[NateTheClickbait]

Who knows how to inject his code into crouton?

[jcclin]

I am having the same issue. In terms of targets, I tried xenial, focal & jammy, all bumped into the same problem.
Note the ChromeOS version is 112.

[zhaozqaa]

hi!
I have same issue in chrome book to build crouton.
'sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory
Failed to complete chroot setup.'
What is the solution to this problem? How to deal with this error?

[ruitian37]

I have the same issue
sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory
Failed to complete chroot setup.
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/

[daywalker247]

same here..

[jake01756]

Okay I found a temporary solution!

Use this command when invoking crouton to use the silence branch:
sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton

Ex: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -u -r bullseye -t xfce

By the looks of things it appears that you will be without sound? I'm not quite sure. But hey it works.

[jcclin]

Thanks @jake01756

I can confirm
sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -r jammy -t xfce,xiwi
works for me.
I understand audio is unlikely to work but I am not depending on it.
(Asus Chromebook C204e, ChromeOS version 113.0.5672.114)

[TangerineTopaz]

Wait, I'm still confused. @jake01756 At what point in the set up are we running this? I ran into the error, and while I'm still in the shell, I tried running it, but "sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton" just pulled up the normal install menu.

How do I know what things to add to the end of it? I'm trying to download xfce for Crouton too.

I'm extremely new to linux (doing my best!) so I apologize if I've missed something obvious.

[TangerineTopaz]

Edit: @jcclin 's suggestion worked - just... enter in said command while in shell (no need to clear out last attempt). Audio's definitely fried, but hey, it works! Wonder if there's a work around for sound?

(Considering how janky this is I'm assuming no, and various other distros already seem to have audio issues when it comes to running on Chromebooks).

[Qwer-TeX]

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton works! For now lets still get the job done without the audio and with the headphones.
The sound coming out of the speakers sounds like wood burning in a fire at a camp and is fried up like @TangerineTopaz said.

[Gorvetco]

_

I tried running it, but "sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton" just pulled up the normal install menu.
How do I know what things to add to the end of it? I'm trying to download xfce for Crouton too.

_
So, its fairly straight forward actually. If you've already made a chroot that is currently incomplete, (and haven't specified a name for it (-n) then inevitably it will be named after the distro you chose to install. So all you'd need to do now at this point would be to update your chroot using the "-u" variable. So lets say the distro you chose was xenial and you said you wanted the xfce desktop environment. So therefore your command would look like this:

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -u -r xenial -t xfce

Or lets say you deleted your chroot and you wanted to start a brand new one. You can do the same thing pretty much, only you'd drop the "-u" option since you won't be updating an already existing chroot. So in this case your command would look like this:

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -r xenial -t xfce

So remember, you can interchange xenial with the distro of your choosing. Whether that be Ubuntu's focal, jammy, impish, kinetic, etc... Or whether you would like to use Debian's buster, bullseye, bookworm, sid, etc...
You can also add whatever other targets as well after the "-t" option, using a comma (no space) to separate each. Here's a few examples:

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -r xenial -t xfce,xfce-desktop,core,keyboard,xiwi,x11,cli-extra,extension

[ClaudeJGreengrass]

Thanks @jake01756

I also can confirm
sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -r jammy -t xfce,xiwi
works for me.

[Mutmaheen001]

Thanks @jake01756

The code worked

[mio-19]

You could try this PR, second commit might fix it: 0d48e40

(none of this is tested -- at all)

doesn't work

[GamerX999999999]

Okay I found a temporary solution!

Use this command when invoking crouton to use the silence branch: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton

Ex: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -u -r bullseye -t xfce

By the looks of things it appears that you will be without sound? I'm not quite sure. But hey it works.

I got this "/usr/local/bin/crash_reporter_wrapper: 119: exec: /var/run/crw/crw: Permission denied
WARNING: Unable to register core dump handler."

[Qwer-TeX]

Okay I found a temporary solution!
Use this command when invoking crouton to use the silence branch: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton
Ex: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -u -r bullseye -t xfce
By the looks of things it appears that you will be without sound? I'm not quite sure. But hey it works.

I got this "/usr/local/bin/crash_reporter_wrapper: 119: exec: /var/run/crw/crw: Permission denied WARNING: Unable to register core dump handler."

I got the same error while installing focal, and hiresuite. but Jammy gave me no error.

[powerCord154]

same issue here (sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: No such file or directory)

[EPICTHUNDER123]

hey, same issue here and i am using a hp chromebook x360 with touchscreen. been looking for something that would work, jammy does work for my chromebook.

[EPICTHUNDER123]

update, it downloads but after it requires updates.

[EPICTHUNDER123]

still wont work now i getError: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Error: not connected.
Cannot connect to extension, retrying...
Unable to start display, make sure the crouton extension is installed
and enabled, and up to date. (download from https://goo.gl/OVQOEt)
Running exit commands...
/usr/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down Hangup
Hangup
Hangup
(II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/jammy...
Sending SIGTERM to processes under /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/jammy...
chronos@localhost / $

[EPICTHUNDER123]

i get the error while launching xfce4

[Qwer-TeX]

hey, same issue here and i am using a hp chromebook x360 with touchscreen. been looking for something that would work, jammy does work for my chromebook.

What a coincidence. I've been using the same chromebook as you and you might have the same error as me!!

Can you tell me the ChromeOs version you are using and what channel it is on (i.e stable, beta, dev) so that we can relate?
And what command you used to create the chroot (i.e sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton )?

Im curious if our identical chromebooks have the same issue or not depending on the version and commands.

[EPICTHUNDER123]

im using it on stable channel, enabled dev mode, version is Version 114.0.5735.143 (Official Build) (64-bit), I used the sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -r jammy -t xfce,xiwi command, could just be type of chromebook...

[sb294188]

I got past this by executing from /usr/local like this: sudo -cp ~/Downloads/crouton /usr/local, and then sudo sh /usr/local/crouton -kali-rolling.

[Qwer-TeX]

@EPICTHUNDER123
Im using ChromeOs 114.0.5735.239. We both have dev mode enabled and are on the stable channel. Our versions are similar and aren't the reason of such error.

Probably you didn't install the crouton browser extension. install it from here I don't know what it fully does but it has some debugging and logging features.

if it doesn't work then type sudo startxfce4 again, again, and again. And it worked in my case. I don't know the reason why it sometimes does that.

If it then doesn't work, then i I don't know what it could be. I know that its not the type of chromebook bc their software are mostly standard.

[EPICTHUNDER123]

I have the chrome extension but i should try spaming it, illl get back if it does not work :)

[EPICTHUNDER123]

so good news spamming worked once, now it jut shows green blue and red squares on the window...

[EPICTHUNDER123]

[EPICTHUNDER123]

all it says is

find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...
find_shm: Cannot connect to findnacl daemon. (Connection refused)
write_image: Cannot find shm, moving on...

[EPICTHUNDER123]

i've tried updating the ch root but it does nothing if you experience this then if possible tell me how to fix it!

[Qwer-TeX]

@EPICTHUNDER123
I see what happened, The startup script cannot find XFree86, X11 and Xorg used to show you the nice windows, menus, apps, icons, etc. if sudo enter-chroot works, and sudo startxfce4 doesn't work, then it cannot find the X Window System. to fix that update the chroot to include the targets x11, and xorg. I also suggest to install the core target because it contains core system configuration used to configure the X Window System. It should work, I guaranty it!

[NazagamerITA]

Okay I found a temporary solution!

Use this command when invoking crouton to use the silence branch: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton

Ex: sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -u -r bullseye -t xfce

By the looks of things it appears that you will be without sound? I'm not quite sure. But hey it works.

Thanks! it worked!

[EPICTHUNDER123]

this worked thank you, also one more question, if you are installing lunix apps on xfce4 do you need to enable lunix on your chromebook?

[DennisLfromGA]

@EPICTHUNDER123,

No, the Crostini / Linux development environment is completely separate and not needed for crouton.

It is a good alternative to crouton for some and does not require Developer mode.
You can check out the crouton author's note about it here:

• https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton#what-about-dem-crostinis-though

-DennisLfromGA

[EPICTHUNDER123]

this was not what i was getting at, lets say you install minecraft on chromebook linux, would minecraft be on xfce4 too?

[DennisLfromGA]

@EPICTHUNDER123,

if you are installing lunix apps on xfce4 do you need to enable lunix on your chromebook?

Again, no. They are isolated, Crostini is in a VM in a container, it has nothing to do with the crouton chroot.

Lets say you install minecraft on chromebook linux, would minecraft be on xfce4 too?

No, see the above explanation.

-DennisLfromGA

[kiarog3]

I received the same error. Has anyone found another work around that doesn't affect the sound. I downloaded it using the unity interface.. and tried to start but received this message. I've also downloaded the crouton extension because somewhere said it would help.

[kiarog3]

also which interface is most preferred

[Qwer-TeX]

Xfce4 interface is most preferred because its lightweight and doesn't have eyecandy(animations) like unity. Usage of ram is about 354 MB for running crouton with xfce4 interface.

[brianwei20172218]

I ran into same problem...
I used to have positive feeling about chromebooks, but now gradually I feel it is trap :)
Once you get it, it so hard to go anywhere.

[redd-rl]

Solved this issue personally by installing CRAS using chromebrew, "crew install cras" and then running crouton setup, knowledge only goes as far as ubuntu.

[2manyanchovies]

Solved this issue personally by installing CRAS using chromebrew, "crew install cras" and then running crouton setup, knowledge only goes as far as ubuntu.

Yo, I'm in a similar spot. I'm trying to download chromebrew to help fix this, but when I try to install it, it gives the error message "curl: (6) could not resolve host: Ls"

[redd-rl]

dash ls. not Ls, -Ls.

[redd-rl]

also i kinda lied i didn't get further than that i was forced to downgrade to chrome os 109 to advance, i installed unity image with targets xiwi,unity.

sudo CROUTON_BRANCH=silence crouton -t xiwi,unity
i think.
got me a barely working instance on chrome os 109, don't want to try updating to 121 again.