[poky] Error in building poky

[Richard Purdie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:45 +0530, chinmaya hoshing wrote:
> I am getting the following pattern of error while building poky,please
> can u help me out to find the root cause
> 
> 
> I would like to add,that whenever the number of packages inside the
> recipes-core are increased I am faced with this error
> Has it to do with the size of ROOTFS ???? or else ,I am not able to
> add any of the packages further ,
> Have u any idea about this kind of error,let me know

You are installing some package which contains something in /var/cache
which is making rpm unhappy:

> | base-files
>  ##################################################
> | error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/cache: cpio: rename
> failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device
> | pango-module-basic-x
>  ##################################################

So you need to track down which package has this strange /var/cache
entity in it and fix that. I'd be interested to know what kind of file
is causing this problem...

Cheers,

Richard