[OE-core] linux-yocto.do_validate_branches failing since last oe-core update

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 21:06 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 15:56 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at g
> > mail
> > > .com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gma
> > il.c
> > > > om> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Richard/Ross: are you seeing this same thing on the autobuilder ?
> > >
> > > There's some incantation or config that I'm missing, I assume
> > this is
> > > a straight qemux86 config
> > > with a bitbake of something like core-image-minimal ?
> > 
> > We're not seeing this on the autobuilders. I do suspect something
> > in
> > the handling of extra patches or cfg fragments from SRC_URI if I
> > had to
> > guess. That certainly was the trigger last time I saw this.
> Yah, that's the kicker, I'm still carrying your patch for binfmt_elf,
> and I added two of my own
> + config fragments, and I can't trigger anything.

I managed to reproduce breakage. With master and my separate patch in
SRC_URI:

$ bitbake linux-yocto
$ bitbake linux-yocto -c kernel_checkout -f
$ bitbake linux-yocto

ERROR: linux-yocto-4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-r0 do_validate_branches: Function failed: do_validate_branches (log file is located at /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/linux-yocto/4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.116726)
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/linux-yocto/4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.116726
Log data follows:
| DEBUG: Executing shell function do_validate_branches
| HEAD is now at fe0fb8d Merge tag 'v4.10.9' into standard/base
| 1493125671.284715: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.’: File exists
| 1493125671.370592:
| 1493125671.3742917: [ERROR] Can't find patch dir at ./patches/standard/base
| 1493125671.3742917: usage: kgit s2q
| 1493125671.3743172: WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
| 1493125671.3745801: ERROR: Function failed: do_validate_branches (log file is located at /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/linux-yocto/4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.116726)

Cheers,

Richard