[yocto] Fwd: build failure on ubuntu 64bits development system

[William Mills]

On 01/18/2012 10:04 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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> From: *William Mills* <wmills at ti.com <mailto:wmills at ti.com>>
> Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [yocto] build failure on ubuntu 64bits development system
> To: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>>
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>
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> On 01/18/2012 09:51 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
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>     On 2012-01-18 07 <tel:2012-01-18%2007>:42, James Abernathy wrote:
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>         On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM, James Abernathy
>         <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>>__>
>         wrote:
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>         On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:55 AM, James Abernathy
>         <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>>__>
>         wrote:
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>         I just built a new development pc and installed Ubuntu 11.10
>         x64. I wonder if there are any new requirements to building
>         Yocto in that environment? I got an error right
>         off, but then it complete the first 63 task and stopped
>         successfully. error below:
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>         jim at ubuntu:~/poky/build-cdv$ bitbake core-image-sato
>         Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first
>         before the main build
>         Parsing recipes: 100%
>         |#############################__####################| Time: 00:00:25
>         Parsing of 797 .bb files complete (0 cached, 797 parsed). 1037
>         targets, 22 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
>         ERROR: Execution of event handler 'run_buildstats' failed
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>         File "run_buildstats(e)", line 18, in
>         run_buildstats(e=<bb.event.__BuildStarted object at 0x4c338d0>)
>         File "buildstats.bbclass", line 21, in
>         set_device(e=<bb.event.__BuildStarted object at 0x4c338d0>)
>         UnboundLocalError: local variable 'rdev' referenced before
>         assignment
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>         Any ideas?
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>         JIm A
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>         I went back and tried using the tarballs for poky edison and
>         cedartrail bsp and the errors don't occur. So I'm guessing the
>         issue isn't related to Ubuntu 32 vs. 64 bit.
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>         I spoke too soon. Same error in edison tarballs. I looked at the
>         code and I can see an place were rdev could go un assigned. If
>         you fell out of the for loop without passing any of
>         the if conditions, rdev would be unassigned. That must be what
>         is happening in Ubuntu 11.10 x64
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>         Anybody building with Ubuntu 11.10 x64? This doesn't happen on x32
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>         Jim A
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>         def set_device(e):
>         tmpdir = bb.data.getVar('TMPDIR', e.data, True)
>         try:
>         os.remove(bb.data.getVar('__DEVFILE', e.data, True))
>         except:
>         pass
>         ##############################__##############################__################
>         # We look for the volume TMPDIR lives on. To do all disks would
>         make little
>         # sense and not give us any particularly useful data. In theory
>         we could do
>         # something like stick DL_DIR on a different partition and this
>         would
>         # throw stats gathering off. The same goes with SSTATE_DIR.
>         However, let's
>         # get the basics in here and work on the cornercases later.
>         ##############################__##############################__################
>         device=os.stat(tmpdir)
>         majordev=os.major(device.st___dev)
>         minordev=os.minor(device.st___dev)
>         for line in open("/proc/diskstats", "r"):
>         if majordev == int(line.split()[0]) and minordev ==
>         int(line.split()[1]):
>         rdev=line.split()[2]
>         file = open(bb.data.getVar('DEVFILE', e.data, True), "w")
>         file.write(rdev)
>         file.close()
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>     Can you show what the differences are between /proc/diskstats
>     on the two systems? That's obviously what's causing the error.
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> If your build dir is encyptfs or a fuse device or anything that is not a
> direct block device you will get this error. This is to be fixed in
> 1.1.1 but encyptfs will still have other problems.
>
> I build the Ubuntu 11.10 x64 system with 2 drives setup as Soft RAID 0.
> I picked btrfs as the file system for no particular reason. Should I go
> back to ext4 or is RAID 0 the problem?

No, I would not do that yet.  I would think software RAID would present 
a block device so would not trigger this error.

 >  9       0 md0 133691 0 2218832 0 67133 0 5629616 0 0 0 0
 >   9       1 md1 235 0 1880 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Your build dir is in md0 or md1 (wrt your other post)

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> JIm A
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