[OE-core] "bitbake -v core-image-minimal" for qemuarm hangs on building qemu

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> sadly, i must run off for socializing so i can't debug for a few
> hours but, from scratch, i tried to build a core-image-minimal for
> qemuarm on my 64-bit, fully-updated ubuntu 12.04 system, and for the
> second straight time, it's hung at:
> 
> NOTE: package qemu-native-0.15.1-r9: task do_populate_sysroot: Succeeded
> NOTE: Running noexec task 1194 of 1561 (ID: 71, virtual:native:/home/rpjday/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_0.15.1.bb, do_build)
> 
> (hang)
> 
>   i've configured for 4 threads and that level of parallel make.  this
> has always worked before.  i have a fully git-pulled oe-core and
> bitbake.
> 
>   "top" shows a couple git processes running, but i've configured
> local.conf to allow fetching from the network so i'm not sure what
> it's after, if that's the issue.
> 
>   i'm sure it's something annoyingly simple.  back in a while.

Have you the full log (see tmp/cooker.log*)? The above says what ran but
not what is currently running. If you hit ctrl+c, you should see which
task was hanging. Was it gthumb?

Cheers,

Richard