Re: [PATCH] populate_sdk_base: repeat to tar archive file five time

[Rongqing Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>]

On 10/17/2013 04:52 PM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537 wrote:
> It is worth to give a try to add PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 sync before tar. The issue doesn't appear on my CentOS 5.9 after doing that.
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> Best Regards,


Thanks, I will test it


-Roy

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> Zhenhua
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openembedded-core-bounces@lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
>> Rongqing Li
>> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 10:02 AM
>> To: Richard Purdie
>> Cc: Otavio Salvador; Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
>> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] populate_sdk_base: repeat to tar archive
>> file five time
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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:
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>>>> 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]
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>>>>>> tar failed and reported that file changed as we read it, now we
>>>>>> workaround it
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>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
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>>>>> You must be kidding right?! loop 5 times?!? why not fix the root
>>>>> cause of the change?
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> I saw it happened on CentOS 5.9 and RedHat 5.5, and We deployed lots of
>> them, it is hard to replace them.
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>> 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.
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>> -Roy
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> Richard
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