Problem with task do_package_update_index_ipk

Problem with task do_package_update_index_ipk

[Rob Smith]

Hello,

I've encountered a strange problem that seems to have arisen from
nowhere. Essentially, when I try to bitbake an image
(omap3-console-image), the process gets completely stuck in the task
do_package_update_index_ipk. Its currently been running for over 4
hours. Yesterday, it was working fine, and would take only a few minutes
for that task to complete.

This morning, all I changed was some configure options for the packages
gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good, cleaned them, and then rebuilt,
using these commands:

# bitbake gst-plugins-base -c clean
# bitbake gst-plugins-base
# bitbake gst-plugins-good -c clean
# bitbake gst-plugins-good
# bitbake omap3-console-image

This last command gets stuck in the do_package_update_index_ipk task.
What exactly does this task do, and is there anything I can do to fix
this? Is there an index file that might be corrupt?

Thanks for any help,
Regards
Rob Smih

Re: Problem with task do_package_update_index_ipk

[Rob Smith]

Hello Again,

I've managed to discover what the problem was... It turns out the
ipk.lock file was still present in my deploy directory, which seems to
have completely messed things up. 

The location of the .lock file was tmp/deploy/glibc/, and when present
the do_package_update_index_ipk task just hung forever. Perhaps this
should be a bug report, as there should have at least been a warning
message.

Anyway, just for info.

Cheers
Rob

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:22 +0100, Rob Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've encountered a strange problem that seems to have arisen from
> nowhere. Essentially, when I try to bitbake an image
> (omap3-console-image), the process gets completely stuck in the task
> do_package_update_index_ipk. Its currently been running for over 4
> hours. Yesterday, it was working fine, and would take only a few minutes
> for that task to complete.
> 
> This morning, all I changed was some configure options for the packages
> gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good, cleaned them, and then rebuilt,
> using these commands:
> 
> # bitbake gst-plugins-base -c clean
> # bitbake gst-plugins-base
> # bitbake gst-plugins-good -c clean
> # bitbake gst-plugins-good
> # bitbake omap3-console-image
> 
> This last command gets stuck in the do_package_update_index_ipk task.
> What exactly does this task do, and is there anything I can do to fix
> this? Is there an index file that might be corrupt?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Regards
> Rob Smih
> 
> 
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