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

[Ayoub Zaki]

On 08.11.2017 17:47, Jerry Lian wrote:
> Really, only me got this problem?
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Probably it's just you did forgot to update your system to fix known SMT 
Problems ...

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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com 
> <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     Ross
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>     On 8 November 2017 at 16:38, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jerry.lian at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         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 <mailto: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.
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>             Ross
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>             On 8 November 2017 at 16:31, Jerry Lian
>             <jerry.lian at gmail.com <mailto:jerry.lian at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                 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
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>                 (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 <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>>
>                 wrote:
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>                     The autobuilder does about 50 builds a night using
>                     pure poky and we don't see this, so again: what
>                     recipe and what errors?
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>                     Ross
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>                     On 8 November 2017 at 16:22, Jerry Lian
>                     <jerry.lian at gmail.com
>                     <mailto:jerry.lian at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                         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)
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>                         On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Eric Schwarz
>                         <eas at sw-optimization.com
>                         <mailto:eas at sw-optimization.com>> wrote:
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>                             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.
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>                             Cheers
>                             Eric
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>                             Am 08.11.2017 16:49, schrieb Jerry Lian:
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>                                 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)
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>                                 Any idea to clear this annoying bug?
>                                 thanks.
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