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

[Jerry Lian]

Isn't my problem clear: the failure pop-up randomly!
Do you mean the random failure also help you for debugging?




On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> 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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