<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2015 at 22:14, Martin Jansa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.jansa@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.jansa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4yk" class="" style="overflow:hidden">yes, I've verified that I can reproduce this issue in master after<br>
reverting this change and that it resolves the issue in dizzy if I<br>
backport it with one other change (just to apply it cleanly with<br>
additional bugfix), I've referenced the fontcache.bbclass fix, these<br>
3 should go in only together.</div></blockquote></div><br>So I just managed to replicate and root-cause this a bit. Good news: found this in qemu's bugzilla. Bad news: it's been open since 2013.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1245703">https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1245703</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The startup code iterates all files in the "sysroot" and cyclic symlinks cause it to iterate forever. So for now the official advice is "don't have cyclic symlinks in your rootfs, or qemu breaks".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>