[oe] release 2010-12: tar error

[Graham Gower]

On 21 December 2010 22:20, Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at ge.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/10 20:47, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
>>> <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Not sure if this is reproducible or a race but when building console-image
>>>> for minimal for calamari I got:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: Function staging_packager failed
>>>> NOTE: Task failed: ('function staging_packager failed',
>>>> '/home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/tmp/work/calamari-oe-linux-gnuspe/linux-2.6.30-r6/temp/log.staging_packager.27026')
>>>> ERROR: Task 601
>>>> (/home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/openembedded/recipes/linux/linux_2.6.30.bb,
>>>> do_package_stage) failed with 256
>>>> NOTE: oestats: task failed, see
>>>> http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/1176040/
>>>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>>>> /home/hudson/jobs/FM_TEST/workspace/tmp/work/calamari-oe-linux-gnuspe/linux-2.6.30-r6/temp/log.staging_packager.27026
>>>> Log data follows:
>>>> | tar: .: file changed as we read it
>>>>
>>>> NOTE: package linux-2.6.30-r6: task do_package_stage: Failed
>>>>
>>>> Didn't have time to dig into this. Sry.
>>>
>>> yes this happens time to time. Its some sort of race condition. I get
>>> it sometimes in different packages but never went in deep to fix it.
>>
>> I can confirm that this is a long standing race condition, presumably in
>> packaged staging - there were several attempts at fixing it w/o much success.
>>
>
> I recently repeatedly hit this. I'm in the process of setting up some
> automated testing which made this particularly annoying. I had
> BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE setup in my local.conf. I think this is
> arises when BB_NUMBER_THREADS is set. I've removed it and taken the hit in
> build time instead (preferable in my situation). This seems to have stop it
> being an issue, but I need to do quite a few more runs to make sure.
>
> Martyn
>

If you have a good way to reproduce any race, please provide instructions.

I have PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 12" and BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "12" in my
local.conf and have never seen this race.

-Graham