[poky] Update gone terribly wrong

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/15/2011 08:03 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 07:51 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I updated my Poky tree to current master this morning (4c695dbcd12b295a4215422622006f1f58469297)
>>
>> Now, when I try to build in an extant tree, I get errors like these:
>>     /home/local/poky-amltd/scripts/bitbake: line 51: 28850 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) PSEUDO_BINDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR PSEUDO_LIBDIR=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../lib/pseudo/lib
>> PSEUDO_PREFIX=$PSEUDOBINDIR/../../ PSEUDO_DISABLED=1 $PSEUDOBINDIR/pseudo $BITBAKE $@
>>
>> So, I removed pseudodone and got
>>     /home/local/poky-amltd/scripts/bitbake: line 43: 28891 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) bitbake pseudo-native tar-replacement-native -c populate_sysroot
>
> This looks like python itself is segfaulting, even without pseudo loaded
> so it could well be something outside our control :/. Which python
> version is that?

Python 2.6.4 on Fedora 13

>
> If you still have the build around it would be interesting to see if
> just removing the cache directory fixed that or trying to narrow down
> which files are triggering the segfault.

When I moved sstate-cache & tmp, the problem went away.  I kept the old trees
and will try and figure out what's crashing.

>
>> So I figured I'd just restart, so I tried this:
>>     % mv tmp tmp.BAD
>>     % mv sstate-cache sstate-mirror
>>     ... set SSTATE_MIRRORS to use the old cache
>>     %  tail -n3 conf/local.conf
>>     SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
>>     file://.* file:///local/p60_poky/sstate-mirror/"
>>
>> Sadly, it's rebuilding everything, reusing nothing :-(
>>
>> Any ideas what went wrong and why the sstate mirror is not working (again)?
>
> Likely, some of the changes in master meant the sstate checksums were
> invalidated and it therefore required a rebuild. The sstate files are
> only used if the checksums are found to be valid.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

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