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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? )

It will not; check the downloads directory.

> Would it be good if I only cleaned parted : bitbake parted -c cleanall ?

You might try; I'd go for a clean tmp ;-)

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