[OE-core] "qemu-arm udevadm hwdb --update" eats swap space after build host update to openSUSE 13.2

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de
Thu Dec 18 11:19:12 UTC 2014


Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> writes:

>> I had a big subtree from earlier local openSUSE Build Service runs
>> below toplevel /var/run. After deleting this the build succeeds.
>> 
>> But manually deleting such files before running OE builds cannot
>> really be a reasonable solution. :(
>
> Agreed, we need to figure out which tool is suffering issues with
> circular symlinks,

Circular symlinks are not the issue but absolute symlinks (like /tmp ->
/var/tmp due to local changes).  I can not find absolute symlinks to
directories in my images anymore, so Steffen's problem might be caused
by local changes too.

Chroot unaware tools (qemu) are the real problem... 


Enrico



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