On 21/12/10 22:58, Graham Gower wrote: > On 21 December 2010 22:20, Martyn Welch <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/12/10 20:47, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >>>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Not sure if this is reproducible or a race but when building console-image >>>>> for minimal for calamari I got: >>>>> >>>>> ERROR: Function staging_packager failed >>>>> NOTE: Task failed: ('function staging_packager failed', >>>>> '/home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/tmp/work/calamari-oe-linux-gnuspe/linux-2.6.30-r6/temp/log.staging_packager.27026') >>>>> ERROR: Task 601 >>>>> (/home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/openembedded/recipes/linux/linux_2.6.30.bb, >>>>> do_package_stage) failed with 256 >>>>> NOTE: oestats: task failed, see >>>>> http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/1176040/ >>>>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: >>>>> /home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/tmp/work/calamari-oe-linux-gnuspe/linux-2.6.30-r6/temp/log.staging_packager.27026 >>>>> Log data follows: >>>>> | tar: .: file changed as we read it >>>>> >>>>> NOTE: package linux-2.6.30-r6: task do_package_stage: Failed >>>>> >>>>> Didn't have time to dig into this. Sry. >>>> >>>> yes this happens time to time. Its some sort of race condition. I get >>>> it sometimes in different packages but never went in deep to fix it. >>> >>> I can confirm that this is a long standing race condition, presumably in >>> packaged staging - there were several attempts at fixing it w/o much >>> success. >>> >> >> I recently repeatedly hit this. I'm in the process of setting up some >> automated testing which made this particularly annoying. I had >> BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE setup in my local.conf. I think this is >> arises when BB_NUMBER_THREADS is set. I've removed it and taken the hit in >> build time instead (preferable in my situation). This seems to have stop it >> being an issue, but I need to do quite a few more runs to make sure. >> >> Martyn >> > > If you have a good way to reproduce any race, please provide instructions. > > I have PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 12" and BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "12" in my > local.conf and have never seen this race. > > -Graham >
I really wish I could say I had. I believe I have had PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2" and BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2" in my configuration for quite a while now and didn't see this problem until I started to script some of our testing. Martyn -- Martyn Welch (Principal Software Engineer) | Registered in England and GE Intelligent Platforms | Wales (3828642) at 100 T +44(0)127322748 | Barbirolli Square, Manchester, E [email protected] | M2 3AB VAT:GB 927559189 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
