[oe] Problem building kernel - too many files open

[Jader]

Hello.
I had the same problem. It's inside classes/kernel.bbclass:298
(reproduced below):


python populate_packages_prepend () {
	def extract_modinfo(file):
		import tempfile, os, re
		tempfile.tempdir = bb.data.getVar("WORKDIR", d, 1)
		tmpfile = tempfile.mkstemp()[1]
		cmd = "PATH=\"%s\" %sobjcopy -j .modinfo -O binary %s %s" % (bb.data.getVar("PATH", d, 1), bb.data.getVar("HOST_PREFIX", d, 1) or "", file, tmpfile)
		os.system(cmd)
		f = open(tmpfile)
		l = f.read().split("\000")
		f.close()
		os.unlink(tmpfile)


tempfile.mkstemp() is used to create a temporary file. This function
return a tuple with an OS file descriptor and a filename. Filename is
stored in "tmpfile" but descriptor is not stored anywhere, but it is
still open because it's only an integer to python so it is not closed at
the end of the function.

For each iteration in which this function is called, a new OS file
descriptor is opened, but not closed. The solution is to store the file
descriptor and close it:


python populate_packages_prepend () {
	def extract_modinfo(file):
		import tempfile, os, re
		tempfile.tempdir = bb.data.getVar("WORKDIR", d, 1)
		tf = tempfile.mkstemp()
		tmpfile = tf[1]
		cmd = "PATH=\"%s\" %sobjcopy -j .modinfo -O binary %s %s" % (bb.data.getVar("PATH", d, 1), bb.data.getVar("HOST_PREFIX", d, 1) or "", file, tmpfile)
		os.system(cmd)
		f = open(tmpfile)
		l = f.read().split("\000")
		f.close()
		os.close(tf[0])
		os.unlink(tmpfile)


There's a patch attached. As Iḿ new to git, I don know it it was created
in the right way. Used command following:


git format-patch cab70860b89f0fd856c5de1c37c6a3d31fd3cc9d --stdout classes >kernel.bbclass.patch


Jader H. Silva
2MI Tecnologia

Em Qui, 2009-03-12 às 09:51 +0100, Petr Štetiar escreveu:

> 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
> 
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