[yocto] A lot of, seemingly, hung tasks

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Ronald Oakes <ronaldo at brc2.com> wrote:
> Over the weekend, I upgraded my connected development platform to
> Debian 8.4.0 from Centos 7.
>
> However, today I have yet to make a successful poky-tiny build for
> either coreI7-64 or qemux86-64.  In each case, I've aborted the build
> after one or more tasks has stopped doing anything for 30 minutes or
> more.
>
> I define "stopped doing anything" as having not touched a file in 30
> minutes, while the CPU utilization (on this 2 core, low end, ASUS
> VivoPC) drops very low.
>
> I've tried re-running the offending recipes and tasks individually,
> and cleaning and restarting from scratch, but I keep ending up with
> something hung.
>
> Any ideas what is up, and, more importantly, what I should do to resolve it?

Have you used bitbake with the "--debug" option or run "ps axf" or
similar to see which tasks or commands are hanging?

> Ron Oakes
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