[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] kill-bb: Add it for killing abnormal bitbake processes

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Fri Aug 2 10:21:24 UTC 2019


On 02/08/2019 11:24, Robert Yang wrote:
> There might be processes left after Ctr-C, e.g.:
> $ rm -f tmp/cache/default-glibc/qemux86/x86_64/
> $ bitbake -p
> 
> Press 'Ctrl-C' multiple times during parsing, then bitbake processes may not
> exit, and the worse is that we can't start bitbake again, we can't always
> reproduce this, but sometime. We can only use "ps ux" to find the processes and
> kill them one by one. This tool can kill all of them easily.
I've noticed this, and also noticed that it got a lot worse recently.

But let's fix bitbake instead of adding tools to work around it?

Ross


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