Re: release 2010-12: tar error

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> 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.

-- 
Denys