13464 2019-08-01 03:04:57 +0000 Argument list too long when do rootfs when install too many packages 2026-02-19 16:10:51 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED WORKSFORME Medium+ normal 6.99 1 changqing.li changqing.li poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher randy.macleod ross.burton --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 84556 0 changqing.li 2019-08-01 03:04:57 +0000 NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks ERROR: image-std-sato-1.0-r1 do_rootfs: Build of do_rootfs failed ERROR: image-std-sato-1.0-r1 do_rootfs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/buildarea/layers/oe-core/bitbake/lib/bb/build.py", line 680, in exec_task return _exec_task(fn, task, d, quieterr) File "/buildarea/layers/oe-core/bitbake/lib/bb/build.py", line 619, in _exec_task exec_func(task, localdata) File "/buildarea/layers/oe-core/bitbake/lib/bb/build.py", line 209, in exec_func bb.utils.remove(cdir, True) File "/buildarea/layers/oe-core/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py", line 689, in remove subprocess.check_call(['rm', '-rf'] + glob.glob(path)) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 576, in check_call retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 557, in call with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p: File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) OSError: [Errno 7] Argument list too long 85848 1 changqing.li 2019-12-17 08:48:16 +0000 the path is get from cleandirs and splited, so it is like: /yocto/builds/systemd/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/core-image-minimal-1.0 /yocto/builds/systemd/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/deploy-core-image-minimal-image-complete seems cannot generate multi files for glob.glob need to check after reproduce again. 93592 2 randy.macleod 2022-06-23 15:20:58 +0000 Sandy, Do you have a record of what was going on in this build? How many packages were in the image and how long the paths were? Basically, how can we reproduce this? It's not clear why we are doing a glob to remove a directory but perhaps there are good reasons for that... 93593 3 ross.burton 2022-06-23 15:22:17 +0000 I'm thinking our custom remove code should just call shutil.rmtree. (https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.rmtree) 96783 4 randy.macleod 2023-10-24 14:24:17 +0000 Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99 104114 5 randy.macleod 2026-01-29 16:27:04 +0000 Sandy, can we use: shutil.rmtree ? Any idea why this build failed ? Can it be reproduced now? 104119 6 changqing.li 2026-01-30 02:14:53 +0000 Refer https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/tree/lib/bb/utils.py#n876 [# shutil.rmtree(name) would be ideal but its too slow] we use glob.glob on purpose to make remove faster. I didnot reproduce it again, after read the code, [snip of bitbake/lib/bb/build.py ] cleandirs = flags.get('cleandirs') if flags else None if cleandirs: for cdir in d.expand(cleandirs).split(): bb.utils.remove(cdir, True) [snip] meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass:270:do_rootfs[cleandirs] += "${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${IMGDEPLOYDIR} ${S}" I guess it reproduced then a lot of packages are installed in rootfs, and these packages have many files. This issue should rarely to meet, do we need to change to use rmtree? 104356 7 randy.macleod 2026-02-19 16:10:51 +0000 An odd failure that hasn't happened again.