[yocto] Strange bitbake error

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-01-25 07:50, Gary Thomas wrote:
> For the last couple of days, I've been seeing my bitbake builds
> just shutdown, without actually completing, like this:
>
> Initialising tasks: 100% |###################################################################| Time: 0:00:10
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
> ERROR: Worker process (22132) exited unexpectedly (-9), shutting down...
> ERROR: Worker process (22132) exited unexpectedly (-9), shutting down...
> ERROR: Worker process (22132) exited unexpectedly (-9), shutting down...
> ERROR: Worker process (22132) exited unexpectedly (-9), shutting down...
> WARNING: /local/poky-cutting-edge/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py:1159: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.BufferedWriter
> name=31>
>   self.worker = {}
>
> This happened after completing ~650 out of 5786 tasks.
>
> If I rerun the build it will likely complete without any more errors.
>
> Any clues what might be happening?  Is there any information (logs, etc)
> that might help me understand?
>
> BTW I'm using the latest Poky (62d7d4130202d8ede16abf9e7d779361ca70847e)
> updated just a few hours ago.
>

Sorry for the noise - it looks like my system was out of memory
and the bitbake processes were being killed by the kernel oom :-(

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