It is worth to give a try to add PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 sync before tar. The issue doesn't appear on my CentOS 5.9 after doing that.
Best Regards, Zhenhua > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Rongqing Li > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 10:02 AM > To: Richard Purdie > Cc: Otavio Salvador; Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] populate_sdk_base: repeat to tar archive > file five time > > > > On 10/16/2013 08:12 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 14:34 +0800, Rongqing Li wrote: > >> > >> On 10/16/2013 02:24 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> From: Roy Li <[email protected]> > >>>> > >>>> [YOCTO #5287] > >>>> > >>>> tar failed and reported that file changed as we read it, now we > >>>> workaround it > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Roy Li <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> You must be kidding right?! loop 5 times?!? why not fix the root > >>> cause of the change? > >>> > >> > >> Sorry, I do not know the root cause, and I see many people spent lots > >> of efforts to investigate, but do not find the root cause, sometime > >> we suspect it is the building servers kernel issue, if it is true, we > >> can not fix the building servers, we only workaround the code. > > > > This workaround is not going into master, its horrid. Do we know which > > versions of the kernel on the server have the issue. I'd much rather > > tell people to fix their broken filesystems for example and refuse to > > run on them. > > > > I saw it happened on CentOS 5.9 and RedHat 5.5, and We deployed lots of > them, it is hard to replace them. > > The bug did not happen everytime, only intermittently, this workaround is > ugly, but it is better than fixing the servers, or declaring them as > unsupported server. > > > -Roy > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > -- > Best Reagrds, > Roy | RongQing Li > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
