[yocto] A lot of, seemingly, hung tasks

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Ronald Oakes <ronaldo at brc2.com> wrote:
> It looks like it is hanging fairly consistently during the
> gcc-cross-initial-x86_64-5.2.0-r0 do_compile or do_install steps.
> I've tried stopping, cleaning, and just building
> gcc-cross-initial-x86_64, but it still hangs.

Did you try "ps axf" to determine exactly which commands within
do_compile or do_install are hanging?

Also, just as a sanity check, how much DRAM on your build system?

> I'm going to try a 32 bit build just to see if I can get past this.
>
> Ron Oakes
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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