[linux-yocto] update kernel in local.conf

[Ran Shalit]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 2017-02-24 4:02 AM, Ran Shalit wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wanted to try update to rt-kernel to I added the following in
>> local.conf:
>>
>> #PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
>> #PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.4%"
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto-rt"
>> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "4.4%"
>>
>> Everything compiled well with
>> bitbake core-image-sato-sdk
>>
>> I then decided to return to the regular linux by doing:
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
>> PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.4%"
>> #PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto-rt"
>> #PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "4.4%"
>>
>> But now I get errors as following:
>>
>> NOTE: Preparing RunQueue
>> WARNING:
>> /media/sde/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb.do_rootfs
>> is tainted from a forced run
>> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
>> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
>> ERROR: core-image-sato-sdk-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Error executing a python
>> function in exec_python_func() autogenerated:
>>
>> The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure
>> was:
>> File: 'exec_python_func() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
>>      0001:
>>  *** 0002:license_create_manifest(d)
>>      0003:
>> File: '/media/sde/yocto/poky/meta/classes/license.bbclass', lineno:
>> 48, function: license_create_manifest
>>      0044:    pkg_dic = {}
>>      0045:    for pkg in sorted(image_list_installed_packages(d)):
>>      0046:        pkg_info = os.path.join(d.getVar('PKGDATA_DIR', True),
>>      0047:                                'runtime-reverse', pkg)
>>  *** 0048:        pkg_name = os.path.basename(os.readlink(pkg_info))
>>      0049:
>>      0050:        pkg_dic[pkg_name] =
>> oe.packagedata.read_pkgdatafile(pkg_info)
>>      0051:        if not "LICENSE" in pkg_dic[pkg_name].keys():
>>      0052:            pkg_lic_name = "LICENSE_" + pkg_name
>> Exception: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>>
>> '/media/sde/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/congatec-qa3-64/pkgdata/runtime-reverse/kernel-4.4.26-rt19-yocto-preempt-rt'
>>
>> ERROR: core-image-sato-sdk-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Function failed:
>> license_create_manifest
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>>
>> /media/sde/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/congatec_qa3_64-poky-linux/core-image-sato-sdk/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.13106
>> ERROR: Task 9
>> (/media/sde/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb,
>> do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
>> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 7025 tasks of which 7024 didn't need to
>> be rerun and 1 failed.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea ?
>
>
> I don't have any idea, but I can confirm that I have seen the same thing
> in the past when switching kernels.
>
> If you switch back to the -rt provider, do a cleanall, and then go back
> to the standard linux-yocto .. it should go away.
>
> Something is obviously remaining in the sysroot/manifest after the
> switch, but figuring out what  is going on here is deeper into bitbake
> than my expertise can handle :D
>

Thanks for the help, Bruce.

When using rt linux, do you think I need to give:
PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt
or
PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto

Thanks,
Ran

> Bruce
>
>
>> Ran
>>
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