[yocto] unbootable image produced with PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk", /etc missing

[Todd Stellanova]

Thanks for the ideas. I'll try creating a new build folder. If that still shows the problem, I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact that I'm running the build inside a vm (inside an Ubuntu vm running on a Mac). It looks like the build is using debugfs...maybe it's running out of ram at some point and not obtaining more in the vm properly?

> On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicolas / Todd,
> 
>> On Monday 25 November 2013 11:31:42 Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Todd Stellanova
>> <tstellanova at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> It appears that copying the files to the ext3 / sdcard image is failing in
>>> *populate-extfs.sh*
>>> I see a series of these errors:
>>> 
>>> *copy_file: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem*
>>> 
>>> Any idea what might cause this?  I've verified that the initial .tar
>>> archive and the bz2 contain the right files.
>> 
>> can you try to create a new <build> folder (do not remove the current one
>> for now) and reuse the downloads and sstate folder? i am wondering if there
>> is a bug when trying to change PACKAGE_CLASSES in an existing <build>
>> folder.
> 
> I do this not infrequently and never hit a problem like this, so I doubt this 
> is the case.
> 
> Either there is a problem in how the filesystem is being set up (block sizes, 
> etc.) or there is some kind of corruption occurring.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre