[OE-core] SetScene tasks hang forever?

[Mark Hatle]

On 5/2/12 2:16 PM, Rich Pixley wrote:
> On 5/2/12 11:40 , Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 5/2/12 1:21 PM, Rich Pixley wrote:
>>> I'm seeing a lot of builds apparently hanging forever, (the ones that
>>> work seem to work within seconds - the ones that hang seem to hang for
>>> at least 10's of minutes), with:
>>>
>>> rich at dolphin>    nice tail -f Log
>>> MACHINE           = "qemux86"
>>> DISTRO            = ""
>>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "oe-core.0"
>>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "m32 i586"
>>> TARGET_FPU        = ""
>>> meta              = "master:35b5fb2dd2131d4c7dc6635c14c6e08ea6926457"
>>>
>>> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
>>> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
>>> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
>>>
>>> If I run top, I see one processor pinned at 98 - 99% utilization running
>>> python, but no other clues.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to doc, explain what's going on here, or point me in
>>> the right direction to debug this?
>> The only time I've seen "hang-like" behavior the system actually opened a
>> devshell and was awaiting input.   But based on your log, it doesn't look like
>> that is the case.
>>
>> Run bitbake with -DDD option, you will get considerably more debug information
>> and it might help point out what it thinks it is doing.
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 12(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 16(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 20(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.0.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 24(/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 32(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/genext2fs/genext2fs_1.4.1.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 36(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.42.1.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 40(virtual:native:/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_0.15.1.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
> DEBUG: Stamp for underlying task
> 44(/home/rich/projects/webos/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot) is current, so skipping setscene variant
>
> And then the spinning hang.

Sorry, I don't know how to continue debugging what might be wrong.  The only 
other thing I can suggest is check that your filesystem is "real", not a 
netapp/nfs/network emulated filesystem....

And if you were continuing a previous build, start a new build directory and 
retry it.

--Mark

> --rich
>
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