can't build petalinux project

[Teodora Grecu]

Hi! I am trying to create a petalinux project using microblaze on nexys4 DDR. I followed the tutorial in this link https://portfolium.org/entry/petalinux-for-microblaze . I used the board files for my board. Everything works fine, but I can't build the project. I get some errors that some files can't be found but I don't know why they are not generated because there is no warning or error when I create or configure the project. There are 49 of these errors when trying to build.  I use petalinux 2017.4, vivado 2017.4 on ubuntu 16.04. Anyone can help me to solve this problem ?

[thinkthinkthink]

Are you running petalinux on a virtual machine or natively ? Anyway, make sure you have 8 or more gigs of RAM available and also check the log files that are mentioned in the errors.

[Teodora Grecu]

22 minutes ago, thinkthinkthink said:

Are you running petalinux on a virtual machine or natively ? Anyway, make sure you have 8 or more gigs of RAM available and also check the log files that are mentioned in the errors.

I am running it on a virtual machine, and I have 8 GB of RAM for the VM. In the log files  I only find some info logs and the errors colored in red that appear in terminal. It seems that petalinux-create doesn't create all the files the builder needs, but when running petalinux-create everything works fine.

[RemyBlt]

Maybe it's a dumb answer but I've done the mistake once when trying to make zsh work resulting in the same kind of error. Is you default terminal bash ? Because even though you run bash when building petalinux, some script will be launched with the default terminal selected. 
To check this, run this command. 

echo "$SHELL"

If the result is not

/bin/bash

Then you know that you have to change it. If it's not the problem, double check the UG1144 page 9 to 10 to see if you have installed all the necessary libraries 

[Teodora Grecu]

5 hours ago, RemyBlt said:

Maybe it's a dumb answer but I've done the mistake once when trying to make zsh work resulting in the same kind of error. Is you default terminal bash ? Because even though you run bash when building petalinux, some script will be launched with the default terminal selected. 
To check this, run this command. 

echo "$SHELL"

If the result is not

/bin/bash

Then you know that you have to change it. If it's not the problem, double check the UG1144 page 9 to 10 to see if you have installed all the necessary libraries 

I verified the shell, it's the right one. All dependencies are installed, but it doesn't work

[thinkthinkthink]

Apparently you can get weird errors if you're running petalinux on an external HDD/SSD.