[meta-freescale] fsl-image-gui build errors on ubuntu 12.04.2

[Prasant J]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to build fsl-image-gui but getting the following errors and
>>>>>> no images are prepared in tmp/deploy/
>>>>>
>>>>> This seems your mysql tarball is corrupted. Do:
>>>>>
>>>>> bitbake mysql5 -c cleanall
>>>>>
>>>>> bitbake -c linux-imx -c cleanall
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems the cached tarball is corrupted as well; please do those two
>>>>> and give it a try.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> The linux-imx and linux-libc-headers-imx use same GIT server and it
>>> does take a looooooong time to download as those are huge. powertop
>>> and others are better to cleanall them and give it a new try.
>>>
>>> One thing that might explain the corrupt file is if you press Ctrl-C
>>> many times to force the interruption. So it will kill the transfer and
>>> left a broken file as result. In case you press Ctrl-C *once* it'll
>>> finish after it has done current running tasks, safely.
>>>
>>
>> @Otavio: that was the issue. I had presses Ctrl+C more than once and
>> the big downloads were getting corrupted and the process never
>> finished.
>>
>> I cleaned them all and continued. There were manageable minor issues.
>>
>> Now I'm stuck at this point:
>> parted-native-3.1-r0 do_configure()
>> This process seems to be stuck. Then I tried bitbake fsl-image-gui -v
>> and I see that while configuring parted there is a step "checking for
>> working sleep...".
>> It seems to stuck there. Any idea how long does it sleep?
>
> Weird; this is quite fast ...
>
> Maybe due your broken builds you ended with a broken tmp; I'd remove
> tmp and  give it a new try ... it won't rebuild everything as it's
> going to take them from sstate-cache.
>

Will it download everything again? (Where is all the downloaded
packages stored? )
Would it be good if I only cleaned parted : bitbake parted -c cleanall ?

-Pj