On 18 October 2010 17:45, Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/10/18 Graham Gower <[email protected]>: >> This is quite reproducible, but nothing has changed in the lirc recipe >> recently (certainly not since it last built successfully for me). >> >> I'm out of my depth with this one. >> >> -Graham > > I've been peeking at this last week (also bumped into it) and have > discussed it with and send email to kergoth. > > Issue seems to be that there are some tasks (like package_do_package) > have an empty run file. > When this file is passed to bitbake eventually it tries to exec these > files and it seems to hang forever (I'm not too familiar with python > but my guesstimate is that when exec gets an empty file it will read > from stdin or so (and so waits forever). > > I could not find whether the generated files really should be empty > (and were empty before) or when the problem was introduced (I did a > rebuild from scratch a week or two weeks ago and didn't get the > problem then, but could not spot any suspicious commits during that > time period, and didn't have the time to do a bisect on this. > > Then again I noticed Khem pushed 0.8.7 a few hrs ago. Hope that that > one will solve the problem. (although we should fix the root cause) > > Frans
I spoke with Khem about this on IRC. He tracked the problem down to this change: http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/3189/ -Graham _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
