[bitbake-devel] Can't run bitbake with su -c

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:03 +0200, Michael wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> if I call BitBake as super user like this: su <user> -c "bitbake
> <recipe>" I get the following traceback:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/bitbake", line 196, in <module>
>     ret = main()
>   File "/usr/bin/bitbake", line 160, in main
>     cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(configuration, server)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 90, in __init__
>     self.parseConfigurationFiles(self.configuration.file)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 570, in
> parseConfigurationFiles
>     data = bb.parse.handle(os.path.join("conf", "bitbake.conf"), data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/__init__.py", line 75,
> in handle
>     return h['handle'](fn, data, include)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/parse_py/ConfHandler.py",
> line 104, in handle
>     statements.eval(data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in eval
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in
> <lambda>
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 56, in eval
>     bb.parse.ConfHandler.include(self.from_fn, s, data, False)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/parse_py/ConfHandler.py",
> line 66, in include
>     ret = handle(fn, data, True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/__init__.py", line 75,
> in handle
>     return h['handle'](fn, data, include)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/parse_py/ConfHandler.py",
> line 104, in handle
>     statements.eval(data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in eval
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in
> <lambda>
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 54, in eval
>     bb.parse.ConfHandler.include(self.from_fn, s, data, "include required")
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/parse_py/ConfHandler.py",
> line 66, in include
>     ret = handle(fn, data, True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/__init__.py", line 75,
> in handle
>     return h['handle'](fn, data, include)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/parse_py/BBHandler.py", line
> 149, in handle
>     statements.eval(d)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in eval
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 33, in
> <lambda>
>     map(lambda x: x.eval(data), self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/parse/ast.py", line 92, in eval
>     bb.data.update_data(e)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data.py", line 486, in
> update_data
>     overrides = (getVar('OVERRIDES', d, 1) or "").split(':') or []
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data.py", line 100, in getVar
>     return d.getVar(var,exp)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 165, in
> getVar
>     return self.expand(value,var)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 82, in
> expand
>     s = __expand_var_regexp__.sub(var_sub, s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 60, in
> var_sub
>     var = self.getVar(key, 1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 165, in
> getVar
>     return self.expand(value,var)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 83, in
> expand
>     s = __expand_python_regexp__.sub(python_sub, s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/data_smart.py", line 69, in
> python_sub
>     s = utils.better_eval(codeobj, {"d": self})
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bb/utils.py", line 360, in
> better_eval
>     return eval(source, _context, locals)
>   File "PN", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: getVar() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
> 
> I've tried it with BitBake from
> git://github.com/openembedded/bitbake.git, master-branch,
> commit:c47088a86fd8ad06c1810d04d9537c4cd01e8bef as well as commit:
> 782bc0e797802224f06cb6f9098a50d658c86523

Can you do something like a print(source) before this line and see what
code its failing on please?

Cheers,

Richard