[OE-core] Linux-yocto 3.0 crashes at do_patch...

[Tom Zanussi]

FWIW, I just did a fresh minimal beagleboard build without any
workaround and didn't see any problems building.

This was using the proxy setup that had previously failed for me with
the zero-length 3.0 kernel tarball.

Tom

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 13:02 +0300, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> Even after using your workaround i can still reproduce this issue.
> Yocto linux still fails.
> 
> | ERROR. Could not find an excutable target for yocto/standard/base
> | ERROR. Could not locate meta series for yocto/standard/beagleboard
> | ERROR. Could not modify yocto/standard/base
> NOTE: package linux-yocto-3.0.24+git1
> +34e0d2b4b4e9778b31f9ea99ca43f0dc71a7ee23_1
> +6b4bf6173b0bd2d1619a8218bac66ebc4681dd35-r4: task do_patch: Failed
> ERROR: Task 3
> (/media/HDD/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb,
> do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
> <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Andrei Gherzan
>         <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>         > Today i just gave another try.... same result.
>         
>         Responding here as well as the yocto list:
>         
>         A few people have been having this issue and after some
>         discussion we
>         think we have a root cause. Let me first explain what
>         happened.
>         
>         The autobuilder infrastructure shares a common DL_DIR in order
>         to
>         optimize the builds and provide the source mirror. This DL_DIR
>         is
>         rsynced to the publicaly available source mirror on a regular
>         basis.
>         During our infrastructure upgrade the autobuilder attempted to
>         pull
>         the tar archive for linux-yocto-3.0
>         (http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.0.tar.gz)
>         but due to network issues related to our recent infrastructure
>         upgrade
>         the file ended up as a 0 byte file. This file was rsynced the
>         the
>         source mirror. A few days ago this was mentioned as an issue.
>         Michael
>         Halstead corrected the network issue and I manually removed
>         the file.
>         The autobuilder repulled the archive correctly and repopulated
>         the
>         source mirror with it.
>         
>         Things should have been ok at this point. However, we were
>         still
>         getting reports of people sporadically running into a 0 byte
>         file. Not
>         all the time, but some of the time. Michael Halstead and I
>         just tailed
>         out the apache logs with Tom Zanussi wgetting the problematic
>         file,
>         watching for failures. No failures were seen in the error logs
>         however
>         Tom was still getting sporadic 0 byte files. Which means that
>         his
>         request wasn't even hitting the server. I was not able to
>         replicate
>         this. The only difference we could see is that I generally do
>         not go
>         through a proxy whereas Tom was.
>         
>         Our theory at this point is that all of the people who are
>         hitting
>         this issue are going through a proxy and that their proxy
>         setup has
>         cached that 0 byte file and refuses to regenerate it. There
>         isn't a
>         lot we can do from our end about that other than suggest the
>         following
>         work around. If you run into odd fetch issues with *just* the
>         linux-yocto-3.0 tar archive, clear out your DL_DIR of
>         git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.0.tar.gz and set the
>         following:
>         
>         PREMIRRORS ?= "\
>         bzr://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         cvs://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         git://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         hg://.*/.*    http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         osc://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         p4://.*/.*    http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         svk://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n
>         \
>         svn://.*/.*   http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n"
>         
>         MIRRORS =+ "\
>         ftp://.*/.*      http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/
>         \n \
>         http://.*/.*     http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/
>         \n \
>         https://.*/.*    http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/
>         \n"
>         
>         This will force the fetch to go to the autobuilder host of
>         sources and
>         should work around any proxy caching issues. Then call your
>         local IT
>         folks and ask them to clear out your proxy cache. If you run
>         into any
>         fetch issues not related to this file, please let me know.
>         
>         -b
>         
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