[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] insane.bbclass: Add do_qa_pseudo function to check for common errors listed in pseudo.log

[Burton, Ross]

On 13 September 2017 at 23:08, Seebs <seebs at seebs.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:50:32 +0200
> Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > inode mismatch:
> > '/OE/build/oe-core/tmp-glibc/work/core2-64-oe-linux/
> systemd/1_234-r0/recipe-sysroot/etc/group'
> > ino 29361846 in db, 29361904 in request.
>
> Just to be clear about this:
>
> This is at least potentially an Actual Problem. It's probably not a
> good idea to habitually ignore these. A thing like this happening means
> that, at some point:
>
> 1. Something created etc/group, and it got inode 29361846 recorded in
> the database.
> 2. Something deleted etc/group, and did NOT record this to the database.
> 3. Something created etc/group, with inode 29361904.
>
> It's possible that the thing creating etc/group didn't record it to the
> database, and something else just referred to it later (like a stat
> call), or that this was generated by the request creating the entry.
>
> Either way, it means changes were made to a pseudo-managed hunk of
> filesystem without pseudo knowing about it, and that is generally bad.


I just applied this patch and got an identical hit in systemd, which makes
me think that the useradd class (maze of code that it is) is causing this
instance.

Ross
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