[oe] Problem building kernel - too many files open

[Petr Štetiar]

Marco Cavallini <koansoftware at gmail.com> [2009-03-12 09:02:08]:

> Piero Pezzin ha scritto:

[...]

> >>> 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.

Maybe, that increasing the numbers of max. file handles and number of max.
inodes might help you:

/proc/sys/fs/file-max
/proc/sys/fs/inode-max

-- ynezz