[oe] meta-toolchain continues to woe

[Chris Conroy]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:04 +1030, Graham Gower wrote:
> 2009/11/12 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe at freyther.de>:
> >
> > ./run.do_populate_sdk.27727
> > Collected errors:
> >  * Could not obtain administrative lock for offline root (ERR: Bad file
> > descriptor)  at /data/openembedded/build/arm/cortex-a8/tmp/work/x86_64-armv7a-
> > sdk-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/meta-toolchain-1.0-r0/sdk/image//usr/lib/opkg/lock
> 
> Presumably, the lock file could not be creat()ed. Unfortunately, there
> is no error checking on that creat() call in opkg and you don't get a
> useful error message.
I submitted a patch to opkg back in September to fix this error message
to be a bit more useful. If you upgrade to opkg >=216 it will save you
some headaches whenever this error occurs.

http://code.google.com/p/opkg/issues/detail?id=22


--Chris Conroy