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

[Brian Hutchinson]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
> It is plausible. But in theory, linux-dummy should still provide
> what you need (but since it doesn't build anything, there is
> no abi .. and no modules can be built against it) .. so the
> error isn't graceful.
>
> Bruce

I can confirm this same problem is happening to me.  I just updated
one of my builds from 1.7 to 1.8 and am also getting my rootfs to fail
due to no abi kernel version:

ERROR: No kernel-abiversion file found
(/home/hutch/yocto_1.8_davinci/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/am180x-evm/pkgdata/kernel-depmod/kernel-abiversion),
cannot run depmod, aborting
ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
/home/hutch/yocto_1.8_davinci/poky/build/tmp/work/am180x_evm-poky-linux-gnueabi/core-image-nodeam/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.23558
ERROR: Task 7 (/home/hutch/yocto_1.8_davinci/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-nodeam.bb,
do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'

This is for an AM1808 build.  I'm using fido branch of yocto and
openembedded and master of meta-ti (since it doesn't have a fido
branch yet).

STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR="/home/hutch/yocto_1.8_davinci/poky/build/tmp/work-shared/am180x-evm/kernel-build-artifacts"

I didn't do anything different in my local.conf than what I normally
do.  linux-dummy was also built with my last yocto 1.7 build and it
didn't have this problem.

Regards,

Brian