[oe-commits] Joe MacDonald : snort: blacklist

[git at git.openembedded.org]

Module: meta-openembedded.git
Branch: master
Commit: 13670f904b0807d3da9faf2034921ec264359b60
URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=meta-openembedded.git&a=commit;h=13670f904b0807d3da9faf2034921ec264359b60

Author: Joe MacDonald <joe_macdonald at mentor.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 11:09:04 2015 -0500

snort: blacklist

Details: http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/8936/

The configure failure can cause an OOM on the system, so we will shut this
down immediately.

Signed-off-by: Joe MacDonald <joe_macdonald at mentor.com>

---

 meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.6.0.bb | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.6.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.6.0.bb
index 8f5175e..17d6792 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.6.0.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=78fa8ef966b48fbf9095e13cc92377c5"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpcap libpcre daq libdnet util-linux"
 
+# Blacklist:
+#
+# http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/8936/
+#
+# snort failure is again very nasty, because it's m4 which eats all
+# available memory and swap before it's killed by OOM killer.
+# 
+# Luckily it always picked m4
+# 
+# [Wed Feb 18 19:00:51 2015] Out of memory: Kill process 28522 (m4) score 961 or sacrifice child
+# [Wed Feb 18 19:10:51 2015] Out of memory: Kill process 45228 (m4) score 958 or sacrifice child
+# ...
+PNBLACKLIST[snort] ?= "BROKEN: autotools processing causes OOM condition on configure"
 
 SRC_URI = " ${GENTOO_MIRROR}/${BP}.tar.gz;name=tarball \
             file://snort.init \