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

[Burton, Ross]

The failure doesn't happen for anyone else.  You're literally saying "it
breaks" but not even saying what "it" is, or how "it" is breaking.

Ross

On 8 November 2017 at 16:38, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't my problem clear: the failure pop-up randomly!
> Do you mean the random failure also help you for debugging?
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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)
>>>
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>>> 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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