[yocto] Migration from 1.7.1 to 1.8 - kernel-abiversion missing

[Schaumlöffel, Jan]

> Have you tried setting linux-dummy as the preferred provider for the kernel
> ? That would skip the build processing doing anything more than satisfying
> the various kernel dependencies.

Ah, that's a good hint, I'll try that.

> >
> >> After your build has failed, if you look in STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR
> >> do you see the abiversion file ?
> >
> > There are three instances of the file:
> >
> > ~/yocto-build-fido$ find . -name kernel-abiversion
> > ./tmp/work/beaglebone-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-
> yocto/3.14.36+gitAUTOIN
> > C+162dfe3bb0_dbe5b52e93-r0/pkgdata/kernel-depmod/kernel-abiversion
> > ./tmp/sysroots/beaglebone/pkgdata/kernel-depmod/kernel-abiversion
> > ./tmp/work-shared/beaglebone/kernel-build-artifacts/kernel-abiversion
> 
> Those are where I'd expect them for 1.8, so they should be found and used
> by the various parts of the build process. Something different is happening in
> your build .. hmm.

It looks like those were from another run, built from scratch in a new directory I now see the following result:


NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
ERROR: No kernel-abiversion file found (/home/astro/yocto-build-reproduce/tmp/sysroots/u159/pkgdata/kernel-depmod/kernel-abiversion), cannot run depmod, aborting
ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/astro/yocto-build-reproduce/tmp/work/u159-poky-linux-gnueabi/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.7440
ERROR: Task 7 (/home/astro/git/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb, do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1776 tasks of which 93 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
No currently running tasks (1775 of 1777)

Summary: 1 task failed:
  /home/astro/git/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb, do_rootfs
Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
astro at eldk-vm:~/yocto-build-reproduce$ find . -name kernel-abiversion
astro at eldk-vm:~/yocto-build-reproduce$ bitbake -e core-image-minimal | grep STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR
# $STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR
STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR="/home/astro/yocto-build-reproduce/tmp/work-shared/u159/kernel-build-artifacts"
astro at eldk-vm:~/yocto-build-reproduce$ ls -la /home/astro/yocto-build-reproduce/tmp/work-shared/u159/kernel-build-artifacts
ls: cannot access /home/astro/yocto-build-reproduce/tmp/work-shared/u159/kernel-build-artifacts: No such file or directory
astro at eldk-vm:~/yocto-build-reproduce$

It looks like the entire STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR is missing.


I'll try some more variatons of my setup to try and narrow down why that happens.

Jan