Re: bitbake freeze :(

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de> wrote:
> > Since a few days i see this crazy behavior. Sometimes bitbake freezes (everytime at the same stages if it freezes) when building a target (e.g. with "bitbake drapptempl"). top tells me that a "make all" process is running and consuming all resources of one cpu.
> 
> I had an issue recently where opkg was prompting the user to overwrite
> a file in the rootfs phase.  I would ctrl-C bitbake when it appeared
> to be hung, but soon learned there were additional bitbake processes
> still running.  When I ran killall bitbake, the error message showed
> up.  You might find something by running bitbake with -DDDD.

Now, that you mentioned it, I have also seen it before! There was a file clash 
between 2 recipes providing the same file, so opkg was waiting for the user 
input asking to overwrite the file during the rootfs step. But opkg I/O is 
being redirected, so it appears that bitbake is hung. I found out about the 
problem from the rootfs log file in the tmp/work directory, where the 
output is being redirected to... :)

-- 
Denys