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

[Jerry Lian]

So bad: I do use Ryzen-7!
I will try new kernel, how about Ubuntu-17? or should be latest Debian?

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really, only me got this problem?
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Burton, Ross <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> 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>
>>> 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:
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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
>>>>>
>>>>> (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)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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