[oe] Build suddenly stops and desktop logouts !

[Randy MacLeod]

On 12/19/18 11:24 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> The usual causes are not enough RAM (so the OOM killer steps in and
> kills something inappropriate), bad RAM (you're actually using all of
> it for a change), or CPU overheating.  The latter two often cause
> actual reboots instead of logouts, a logout suggests the OOM killer
> was involved.  Setting up a little bit of swap might be useful, or
> turn down the parallelism in local.conf.

Ran,

Grace/Mingli is working on this bug:
   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11802
   system spontaneously logs out while building core-image
If you could help her to reproduce it in a controlled environment
that would be great! The stumbling block has always been that
it rarely happens and is difficult to reproduce, iirc.

../Randy

> 
> Ross
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 15:27, Ranran <ranshalit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have strange behavior with ubuntu16.04 LTS, in which after building
>> for couple of hours, suddenly the ubuntu OS logouts.
>> I see that others also have the same issue but seems that there is no solution:
>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-December/130617.html
>> and
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48148169/whenever-running-bitbake-stops-all-application-and-locks-the-system
>>
>> I have increased my virtualbox memory to 11G, (no swap in my ubuntu)
>> but it still happens (might be less than before not sure), also
>> strangely even after increase with "free" command I see that it get
>> sometimes below ~150M free.
>>
>> Is there any idea what's wrong?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> ran
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