Re: [Gumstix-users] bitbake errors

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Hi Rod,

I agree, it does seem like an error in bitbake, or at least a reliability
issue. Unfortunately, that was my first day working with bitbake and
openembedded, so I'm not sure why it failed. For now I'm planning on helping
bitbake along with builds and seeing what I learn.

As for the cause, my best guess is some of the files were not downloaded
during the normal build process, but bitbake continued without raising an
error. That definitely seems like a problem to me. I noticed that once a
task is completed, it isn't restarted unless a clean/rebuild is done, so I
tried that and fortunately it worked. I haven't yet tried a complete rebuild
of the whole image.

It is also possible that a problem was introduced to the build files at some
point. I'm probably not the best person to trouble shoot that, but my guess
was that more people would be complaining if it was an issue checked into
the repository. I did find that you can view checkin history at:
http://gitorious.org/gumstix-oe I haven't really taken a look yet.

Thanks,
Karl

Rod Boyce-3 wrote:
> 
> Karl & All,
> 
> This looks good as I can script it but why is this not all done when I
> type 'bitbake omap3-console-image' for the first time?
> I don't want to seem overly critical but it seems to me that perhaps
> there is a bug in the util-linux and / or e2fsprogs-libs bb receipt
> files and this seems to be the result of a change on or after the 11th
> of May.
> Sorry I don't know enough about Git, OE and bitbake to fully diagnose
> this.
> 
> Regards,
> Rod Boyce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: krh3o [mailto:wat...@gm...] 
> Sent: 30 May 2009 09:37
> To: gum...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] bitbake errors
> 
> 
> I was having the same problem, and I just managed to get mine to build,
> without creating any empty directories, and to boot.
> 
> Here are the steps I went through. I don't think the 'make clean' was
> needed, and actually it might be the reason the second bitbake -c
> clean/rebuild was needed.
> 
> 1st I was missing:
> ~/oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/util-linux-ng-2.15-r2/instal
> l/e2fsprogs-libs-dbg
> while running task:
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/e2fsprogs-libs/e2fsprogs-libs_1.41.5.b
> b,
> do_package_write_ipk
> 
> I tried:
> ~/oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/util-linux-ng-2.15-r2/util-l
> inux-ng-2.15$
> make clean
> $ bitbake -c clean -b
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/e2fsprogs-libs/e2fsprogs-libs_1.41.5.b
> b
> $ bitbake -c rebuild -b
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/e2fsprogs-libs/e2fsprogs-libs_1.41.5.b
> b
> 
> then I ran:
> bitbake omap3-console-image 
> and was missing:
> ~/oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.5-r0/ins
> tall/util-linux-ng-fdisk
> while running task:
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng_2.15.bb,
> do_package_write_ipk
> 
> so I tried this:
> $ bitbake -c clean -b
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng_2.15.bb
> $ bitbake -c rebuild -b
> ~/oe/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng_2.15.bb
> 
> I then ran:
> bitbake omap3-console-image 
> for the last time and everything worked.
> 
> I put the new uboot, uImage, and linux file system on a microSD and
> booted
> up my overo. The only issue I ran into, is that between v0.92 and the
> current uboot build, mmcinit was removed from the list of uboot
> commands.
> So, when mmcinit failed, it loaded the linux image from nand. To fix
> this I
> had to wipe the uboot settings on nand, so I broke into uboot and ran
> this
> command:
> nand erase 240000 20000
> 
> I rebooted and everything worked perfectly! I hope that helps.
> 
> A couple pages that were really useful:
> http://www.nabble.com/Palo43-%2B-Overo-Earth-resolution-boot-arguments--
> tp23099316p23100041.html
> http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/wiki/tutorials/omap/command_reference
> http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/wiki/tutorials/start
> and of course
> bitbake --help
> 
> -Karl
> 
> 
> 
> Rod Boyce-3 wrote:
>> 
>> Bruce,
>> 
>> I am still waiting on a response I have not had time to do another git
>> pull yet I am trying to create an SDK other developers can use.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Rod Boyce
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Bernstein [mailto:bru...@da...] 
>> Sent: 28 May 2009 21:35
>> To: General mailing list for gumstix users.
>> Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] bitbake errors
>> 
>> Did you ever get that system to boot?  If so, how?  I'm in the same
>> situation you were then.  I can build my application against the new
>> toolchain, but without having the new libraries loaded it doesn't do a
>> lot of good.
>> Bruce
>> 
>> Rod Boyce wrote:
>>> So I make the missing subdir's but I get a root file system image
> that
>>>  does not contain the inittab script see log snipet below:
>>>  Freeing init memory: 940K
>>>  INIT: version 2.86 booting
>>>  INIT: No inittab file found
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> 
>> 
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