[oe] Problem building kernel - too many files open

[Marco Cavallini]

Piero Pezzin ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I searched without success. I agree with you, there is a problem on my host,
> but I'd like to know why it pops out during the do_package task.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Piero
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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:

this is a known error.
Nobody solved it yet.

/marco