Re: meta-toolchain continues to woe

[Chris Conroy <Chris.Conroy@hillcrestlabs.com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:14 -0500, Chris Conroy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:04 +1030, Graham Gower wrote:
> > 2009/11/12 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe@freyther.de>:
> > >
> > > ./run.do_populate_sdk.27727
> > > Collected errors:
> > >  * Could not obtain administrative lock for offline root (ERR: Bad file
> > > descriptor)  at /data/openembedded/build/arm/cortex-a8/tmp/work/x86_64-armv7a-
> > > sdk-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/meta-toolchain-1.0-r0/sdk/image//usr/lib/opkg/lock
> > 
> > Presumably, the lock file could not be creat()ed. Unfortunately, there
> > is no error checking on that creat() call in opkg and you don't get a
> > useful error message.
> I submitted a patch to opkg back in September to fix this error message
> to be a bit more useful. If you upgrade to opkg >=216 it will save you
> some headaches whenever this error occurs.

Apologies. I should have read your error message more closely since it
looks like you are getting the extra debug information from my patch.
Feel free to make a patch with more debug info for said error or just
let me know what you think would be appropriate and I can submit a new
one.

--Chris

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