[oe] Ugly build problem with emacs/qemu

[Justin Patrin]

On 3/2/09, Hans Henry von Tresckow <hvontres at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch.de> wrote:
>  > Justin Patrin schrieb:
>  >> Are the machines you're building on exactly the same? Do they perhaps
>  >> have different architectures or distributions? Have you tried updating
>  >> the systems?
>  >
>  > The machines are different.
>  >
>  > The one that works fine:
>  >  Ubuntu 8.10
>  >  Linux bfg9000 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  >
>  > The one with the problem:
>  >  openSUSE 11.1
>  >  Linux recycler 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>  >
>  >> This looks like a qemu failure to me.
>  >
>  > I agree. But i can't believe, that the different OS my be involved in that. Both are up-to-date. And i thought that all the tools needed to cross-build the packages are build by OE itself.
>  >
>  > Steffen
>  >
>
>
> I don't kow about openSuse, but I remember that Fedora used to have
>  some kernel patches that did not play well with QEMU. But that was
>  back on Ferora 7, since then I switched to ubuntu. I don't even
>  rmember exactly what patch caused the problems, but IIRC it was
>  security related.
>
>

Hmmm, good point it could be SELinux. Could you try disabling that, if
you have it enabled?

-- 
Justin Patrin