14033 2020-09-01 03:01:25 +0000 bitbake-layers gives a timeout instead of reporting that tools are missing 2020-09-02 09:22:05 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake unspecified x86 x86_64 RESOLVED FIXED Undecided normal --- 1 sorear richard.purdie poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 88068 0 sorear 2020-09-01 03:01:25 +0000 I am attempting to set up meta-riscv in a nixos shell with the default development tools. bitbake-layers fails opaquely: $ bitbake-layers NOTE: Starting bitbake server... NOTE: No reply from server in 30s Timeout while waiting for a reply from the bitbake server (60s) bitbake provides a slightly more useful error, but note that the list of tools is missing: $ bitbake Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 36, in <module> cookerdata.CookerConfiguration())) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 383, in bitbake_main configParams) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/ui/knotty.py", line 386, in main params.updateToServer(server, os.environ.copy()) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 75, in updateToServer raise Exception("Unable to update the server configuration with local parameters: %s" % error) Exception: Unable to update the server configuration with local parameters: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 274, in parseBaseConfiguration bb.event.fire(bb.event.ConfigParsed(), self.data) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 214, in fire fire_class_handlers(event, d) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 121, in fire_class_handlers execute_handler(name, handler, event, d) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 93, in execute_handler ret = handler(event) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass", line 242, in base_eventhandler setup_hosttools_dir(d.getVar('HOSTTOOLS_DIR'), 'HOSTTOOLS', d) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass", line 146, in setup_hosttools_dir bb.fatal("The following required tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS) appear to be unavailable in PATH, please install them in order to proceed:\n %s" % " ".join(notfound)) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/__init__.py", line 156, in fatal raise BBHandledException() bb.BBHandledException During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 81, in runCommand result = command_method(self, commandline) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 272, in updateConfig command.cooker.updateConfigOpts(options, environment, cmdline) File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 488, in updateConfigOpts self.reset() File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 1696, in reset self.initConfigurationData() File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 358, in initConfigurationData self.databuilder.parseBaseConfiguration() File "/home/wrk_other/meta_riscv/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 303, in parseBaseConfiguration raise bb.BBHandledException bb.BBHandledException After strace -f'ing the bitbake-layers command, the following error message is written to the socket by the server and read by the client, but not displayed on the terminal: The following required tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS) appear to be unavailable in PATH, please install them in order to proceed:\n chrpath diffstat file wgetq openembedded-core is git version 09f4db415fb6a1398e9e9b359630043c833f6118. After adding those four tools to the PATH, bitbake-layers works normally. 88080 1 richard.purdie 2020-09-02 09:22:05 +0000 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a6709152e9788418e6c9431851437eb8ec4c6b46