# Shell access to the beaglebone black

**URL:** <https://forum.digikey.com/t/shell-access-to-the-beaglebone-black/28976>\
**Category:** Linux Discussions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/shell-access-to-the-beaglebone-black/28976 "2023-02-24T01:10:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/shell-access-to-the-beaglebone-black/28976/7 "2023-03-02T23:14:33Z")

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Hi,

After creating a new SD card to boot on (by following instructions on [Debian: Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black](https://forum.digikey.com/t/debian-getting-started-with-the-beaglebone-black/12967)). I plugged a monitor, a keyboard and a usb to serial converter and it just worked fine. I could access the terminal from the usb -serial converter and/or through the monitor and a keyboard plugged in the usb to the beaglebone black.

The next step is to get a gui.Please let me know if I should open a new topic for that.

Basically I did the following:  
sudo apt update  
sudo apt upgrade  
sudo tasksel  
then I followed the instructions to install GNOME  
after the installation I performed a reboot and the beaglebone black seems to freeze after some initialization.

Through the usb serial converter I managed to catch the following:

[OK] Finished Permit User Sessions.  
Starting GNOME Display Manager…  
Starting Hold until boot process finishes up…  
[37.665057] kauditd\_printk\_skb: 10 callbacks suppressed  
[37.665078] audit: type=1400 audit(1677794436.732:22): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“capable” profile=“/usr/sbin/cupsd” pid=346 comm=“cupsd” capability=12 capname=“net\_admin”  
[OK] Started CUPS Scheduler.  
[OK] Started Make remote CUPS printers available locally.  
[OK] Started OpenBSD Secure Shell server.  
[OK] Started GNOME Display Manager.  
[39.445996] audit: type=1400 audit(1677794438.512:23): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“capable” profile=“/usr/sbin/cups-browsed” pid=360 comm=“cups-browsed” capability=23 capname=“sys\_nice”

Then the following message occurs couple of time:  
[62.241759] davinci-mcasp 48038000.mcasp: stream has more channels (2) than are enabled in mcasp (0)  
[62.271777] davinci-mcasp 48038000.mcasp: ASoC: error at snd\_soc\_dai\_hw\_params on 48038000.mcasp: -22  
[62.320563] davinci-mcasp.0-i2s-hifi: ASoC: soc\_pcm\_hw\_params() failed (-22)

And finally the Beaglebone seems to freeze and I am unable to do anything from the monitor/keyboard or through the usb/serial converter.

Any clue how to solve that ?

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