[oe] Problem building kernel - too many files open

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Piero Pezzin <piero.pezzin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm building a minimal distribution for a x86 machine (my host is a x86-64
> with CentOS 4.4):
>
> OE Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.8.12"
> METADATA_BRANCH   = "org.openembedded.dev"
> METADATA_REVISION = "a8a23e995d108ecdfc31129941671551c591bc6e"
> TARGET_ARCH       = "i486"
> TARGET_OS         = "linux"
> MACHINE           = "x86"
> DISTRO            = "minimal"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = ".dev-snapshot-20090310"
> TARGET_FPU        = ""
>
>
> During kernel building, I got the following error:
>
> OTE: package linux-2.6.28: started
> NOTE: package linux-2.6.28-r6: task do_package: started
> ERROR: Error in executing:
> /home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb
> ERROR: Exception:exceptions.IOError Message:[Errno 24] Too many open files:
> '/home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/build/tmp/work/x86-oe-linux/linux-2.6.28-r6/tmpQbp1Jr'
> ERROR: Error in executing:
> /home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb
> ERROR: Exception:exceptions.ImportError Message:No module named traceback
> ERROR: Error in executing:
> /home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb
> ERROR: Exception:exceptions.ImportError Message:No module named traceback
> ERROR: Error in executing:
> /home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb
> ERROR: Exception:exceptions.ImportError Message:No module named traceback
> ERROR: Build of
> /home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb do_package failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/bin/bitbake", line 143,
> in ?
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/bin/bitbake", line 140,
> in main
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line
> 612, in cook
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line
> 514, in buildFile
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/runqueue.py",
> line 842, in execute_runqueue
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/runqueue.py",
> line 951, in execute_runqueue_internal
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line
> 137, in tryBuild
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line
> 111, in tryBuildPackage
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/build.py", line
> 278, in exec_task
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/build.py", line
> 113, in exec_func
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/build.py", line
> 136, in exec_func_python
>  File "/home/piero/work/bitbake-nobk/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/utils.py", line
> 186, in better_exec
> ImportError: No module named traceback
> ERROR: Task 12
> (/home/piero/work/qong-nobk/openembedded/openembedded/packages/linux/
> linux_2.6.28.bb, do_package) failed
>
> Does anyone know what's happening?

Someone else also saw this problem. Search the archives. Its most
probably your host.

>
> Thanks in advance and best regards.
>
> Piero
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