[yocto] Segmentation fault with "hob"-command (now no html)

[Cui, Dexuan]

poldi871.lists at progserv.de wrote on 2012-02-15:
> Sorry for the last post in HTML-Format.
> I didn't recognize that my provider has changed the format and doesn't
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> Perhaps the admin may delete my wrong post.
> 
> 
> Hello, I am evaluating Yocto, therefore sorry, if it is a beginner
> fault; I have a problem starting "hob". After the command "hob" the
> system tells that some tools have to be built. The build ends with the
> following lines:
> 
> ------------- snip --------------------------------------- ... NOTE:
> package pseudo-native-1.1.1-r2: task do_populate_sysroot: Started NOTE:
> package pseudo-native-1.1.1-r2: task do_populate_sysroot: Succeeded
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 126 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be
> rerun and 0 failed. /Yocto/poky-edison-6.0/scripts/bitbake: Zeile 86:
> 14880 Speicherzugriffsfehler   PSEUDO_BINDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR
> PSEUDO_LIBDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../lib/pseudo/lib
> PSEUDO_PREFIX=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../../ PSEUDO_DISABLED=1
> $PSEUDOBINDIR/pseudo $BITBAKE $@
> 
> ------------- snap ---------------------------------------
> German output: "Speicherzugriffsfehler" = "segmentation fault"
> 
> System-infos: Build-System: OpenSuSE 11.3, 32bit Yocto version:
> "poky-edison-6.0-tar-bz2" from the Yokto download server
> 
> The absolute same problem also appears with the following constellation:
> Build system: OpenSuSE 11.3 64bit
> Yocto version: "poky-edison-6.0-tar-bz2 'from yocto download server
> 
> On the 64-bit system, I have the "nightly build"
> ("http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/nightly/20120213-1/yocto.tar.bz2
> ") reinstalled. Here I get the following output: ------------- snip
> --------------------------------------- ... NOTE: package
> tar-replacement-native-1.26-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: Started NOTE:
> package tar-replacement-native-1.26-r0: task do_populate_sysroot:
> Succeeded NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 126 tasks of which 0 didn't
> need to be rerun and 0 failed. /Yocto/yocto/scripts/bitbake: Zeile 95:
> 29888 Speicherzugriffsfehler PSEUDO_BINDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR
> PSEUDO_LIBDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../lib/pseudo/lib
> PSEUDO_PREFIX=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../../ PSEUDO_DISABLED=1
> $PSEUDOBINDIR/pseudo $BITBAKE $@
> 
> ------------- snap ---------------------------------------
> 
> From a gdb session (evaluation of the core dump) of the nightly build
> I get the following output:
> ------------- snip ---------------------------------------
> ...
> Core was generated by `python /Yocto/yocto/bitbake/bin/bitbake -r
> conf/hob-pre.conf -R conf/hob-post.c'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x00007f0254626c9e in gdk_window_enable_synchronized_configure
> ()
>    from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
> (gdb)
> ------------- snap ---------------------------------------
> 
> The error occurred in each case at the first attempt after a new
> installation. Commands: ------------- snip
> --------------------------------------- source oe-init-build-env hob
> ------------- snap ---------------------------------------
> 
> Changes in "local.conf":
> 
> ------------- snip ---------------------------------------
> MACHINE ?= "atom-pc"
> ------------- snap ---------------------------------------
> 
> Is it a bug, or a beginner's mistake?
This seems a pygtk bug of bitbake that only appears on some Linux distribution?
In my Ubuntu 11.04, I don't get the SegFault.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan