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From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Race condition in packaged staging?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:45:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211094524.GB17089@denix.org> (raw)

Hi,

I've been seeing some strange breaks in my builds from time to time since the 
introduction of new style staging. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, 
I usually see a message from "tar" complaining about the archive being changed 
on the fly, which comes from the kernel during it's do_package_stage task, 
staging_packager function. The simplest workaround was to disable parallel 
build and parallel bitbake execution (PARALLEL_MAKE and BB_NUMBER_THREADS).
I usually never had time to investigate further.

Today I received a slightly different message, which gave me some pointers 
towards a possible race condition in packaged staging, when multiple bitbake 
threads are trying to execute relative tasks and have a conflict:

NOTE: Running task 1372 of 1377 (ID: 980, /OE/arago/recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb, do_package_write)
NOTE: Running task 1373 of 1377 (ID: 18, /OE/arago/recipes/images/arago-dvsdk-image.bb, do_package_update_index_ipk)
NOTE: Running task 1374 of 1377 (ID: 982, /OE/arago/recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb, do_package_stage)
ERROR: function staging_packager failed
ERROR: log data follows (/OE/arago-tmp/work/omap3evm-none-linux-gnueabi/ti-dmai-1_1.0+svnr423-r51e/temp/log.staging_packager.13580)
| mkdir: cannot create directory `/OE/arago-deploy/pstage/angstromglibc/IPKG_BUILD.13587': File exists
NOTE: Task failed: /OE/arago-tmp/work/omap3evm-none-linux-gnueabi/ti-dmai-1_1.0+svnr423-r51e/temp/log.staging_packager.13580
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
ERROR: Build of /OE/arago/recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb do_package_stage failed
ERROR: Task 982 (/OE/arago/recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb, do_package_stage) failed
NOTE: Waiting for 1 active tasks to finish
NOTE: 1: /OE/arago/recipes/images/arago-dvsdk-image.bb, do_package_update_index_ipk (13566)
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1372 tasks of which 549 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
ERROR: '/OE/arago/recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb' failed

Hopefully this helps somebody more familiar with the subject (don't want to 
bother RP, but it's his creation :)) easily identify the culprit and fix it, 
either by adding a lock or something similar... :) I hate to not use the full 
power of my 4 cores and run everything in one thread. Thanks.

-- 
Denys



             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11  9:45 Denys Dmytriyenko [this message]
2010-05-12 16:48 ` Race condition in packaged staging? Eric Bénard
2010-05-28 16:09   ` Denys Dmytriyenko

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