[OE-core] broken sstate archives

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 12:56 +0000, André Draszik wrote:
> As a follow-up and as a reference for the future - having done
> countless
> builds I am confident enough that a kernel update solved the problem:
> - linux (Debian 9) versions 4.9.110-3+deb9u6 and 4.9.110-3+deb9u5
> both
>   exhibit the problem
> - 4.18.6-1~bpo9+1 doesn't
> 
> Something must have gone into the btrfs driver to fix the issue. I
> didn't
> really spend the time to try and find the relevant commit.
> 
> For reference, I am also sending my hackish patch to poky to detect
> the error case early, which (tries) to detect the broken archive, and
> simply runs tar again.
> 
> Thanks Richard for all your inputs.

Glad you kind of have an answer, these issues can be challenging to
debug. FWIW it sounds like the right kind of problem/solution to fit
the symptoms...

Cheers,

Richard