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On 10/16/2013 08:12 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 14:34 +0800, Rongqing Li wrote:
>>
>> On 10/16/2013 02:24 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:53 AM,  <rongqing.li@windriver.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
>>>>
>>>> [YOCTO #5287]
>>>>
>>>> tar failed and reported that file changed as we read it, now
>>>> we workaround it
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
>>>
>>> You must be kidding right?! loop 5 times?!? why not fix the root cause
>>> of the change?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I do not know the root cause, and I see many people spent
>> lots of efforts to investigate, but do not find the root cause,
>> sometime we suspect it is the building servers kernel issue,
>> if it is true, we can not fix the building servers, we only
>> workaround the code.
>
> This workaround is not going into master, its horrid. Do we know which
> versions of the kernel on the server have the issue. I'd much rather
> tell people to fix their broken filesystems for example and refuse to
> run on them.
>

I saw it happened on CentOS 5.9 and RedHat 5.5, and We deployed lots
of them, it is hard to replace them.

The bug did not happen everytime, only intermittently, this workaround
is ugly, but it is better than fixing the servers, or declaring them
as unsupported server.


-Roy



> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>

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