[yocto] My stuff is missing from rootfs

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Paul Eggleton
> 
> On Thursday 15 August 2013 13:01:54 Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > This smells like one of those situations where nuking tmp 
> > and rebuilding
> > will fix it, and we'll never know what was wrong. I'll let 
> > you know if
> > that fixes it.
> 
> If you keep on doing this we'll never figure out what the 
> problem is. Wiping 
> out tmp just removes any way we might have to diagnose the issue.

I didn't wipe it out, I renamed it to something else, so I can switch back
to it if I need to. I certainly don't have the faintest idea about how to
diagnose it, beyond the naive steps I've already taken. And I need to get
back to my real job, which is writing apps for this system, instead of
building the distro. If there's anything you can think of that I should
try, I'd be happy to do so.

That said, rebuilding tmp (preserving downloads and sstate-cache) did
indeed fix that problem, but it was replaced with another. Now, do_rootfs
is failing, complaining that it "cannot satisfy the following dependencies
for samba: libpam (>= 1.1.6)". Yet there's libpam, version 1.1.6, right
where it's always been in the metadata. Doing a clean and a cleansstate on
libpam didn't help. Now I'm trying rebuilding samba, but that's a huge
package so it will take a while.

The only way I can get any real work done at the moment is to make manual
changes to the last good build I had.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com