[yocto] Annoying "rerun to fix" bug for bitbake: task failed, but rerun can fix it.

[Burton, Ross]

Well next time it happens feel free to reply to this thread. Otherwise
you're asking us "fix my problem" without saying what the problem is.

Ross

On 8 November 2017 at 16:31, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:

> So that is further tricky part:
> * it may fail when finishing 20%, 40% 60%, 80%
> * And the failure last time may not appear next time.
> * So it just pop-up randomly
>
> (By the way, I just build brand new PC with 16 threads CPU, 32G memory,
> and install Ubuntu 16.4.3 with ESXI-6.5)
> (so really confused)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The autobuilder does about 50 builds a night using pure poky and we don't
>> see this, so again: what recipe and what errors?
>>
>> Ross
>>
>> On 8 November 2017 at 16:22, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not talking about my own layer or recipe.
>>> It happens even when I run the demo QEMU/beaglebone builds.
>>> (I just download poky, and make NO modifications)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Eric Schwarz <eas at sw-optimization.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most likely a dependency problem of the package which fails w/ exit
>>>> code 1.
>>>> Check the dependencies in the recipe and w/ Yocto's bitbake it self.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 08.11.2017 16:49, schrieb Jerry Lian:
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure whether it is a bug or an error: * Quite often, bitbake
>>>>> will fail before finishing, with message like: ... task failed with exit
>>>>> code 1... * But if you rerun bitbake, it will continue to build. * So
>>>>> sometimes I have to rerun many times for finish one build ---- annoying!
>>>>> (by the way, my CPU can run 16 threads)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea to clear this annoying bug? thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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