11834 2017-07-25 20:36:05 +0000 if you have a bad layer in bblayers, bitbake server connection hangs 2017-07-30 10:30:44 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake 2.4 x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED High normal 2.4 M3 1 brian.avery richard.purdie bluelightning poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher randy.macleod --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 75302 0 brian.avery 2017-07-25 20:36:05 +0000 poky commitish f7eb49e5db69b4f75105434d427b1cf67719bb0a If you have a bad path in your bblayers file, the memres startup gets into an error loop. This loop is silent from the terminal point of view until you ctrl-c the process and look at the bitbake-cookerdaemon.log. A snippet from the bitbake-cookerdaemon.log, this repeats for at least a minute or two... ERROR: Layer directory '/workdir/poky/meta' does not exist! Please check BBLAYERS in /home/bavery/work/esdk-menuconfig/build/conf/bblayers.conf ERROR: Layer directory '/workdir/poky/meta' does not exist! Please check BBLAYERS in /home/bavery/work/esdk-menuconfig/build/conf/bblayers.conf NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Retrying server connection... NOTE: Starting bitbake server... ERROR: Layer directory '/workdir/poky/meta' does not exist! Please check BBLAYERS in /home/bavery/work/esdk-menuconfig/build/conf/bblayers.conf ERROR: Layer directory '/workdir/poky/meta' does not exist! Please check BBLAYERS in /home/bavery/work/esdk-menuconfig/build/conf/bblayers.conf NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... NOTE: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server, retrying... 75431 1 richard.purdie 2017-07-30 10:30:44 +0000 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=b2c39835bb61687220abbef72e4f69a272cf8afb