7042 2014-12-08 17:26:20 +0000 wic: can't find rootfs-dir if image was build with rm_work enabled 2015-09-09 10:42:27 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core deployment unspecified x86 Multiple VERIFIED NOTABUG Medium normal 1.9 1 moorecr3 eduard.bartosh bogdanx.a.voiculescu daniel.alexandrux.istrate --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 47427 0 moorecr3 2014-12-08 17:26:20 +0000 bitbake core-image-full-cmdline wic create mkefidisk -e core-image-full-cmdline Fails with "The artifact that couldn't be found was rootfs-dir". Removing INHERIT += "rm_work" from local.conf and rebuilding the image allows wic to complete. 50086 1 eduard.bartosh 2015-04-04 15:16:27 +0000 wic uses artifacts produced by bitbake build by design. In particular, rootfs is used from workdir, e.g. tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs. It's also explained in documentation: tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs this way: You need to have the build artifacts already available, which typically means that you must have already created an image using the Openembedded build system (e.g. core-image-minimal). While it might seem redundant to generate an image in order to create an image using wic, the current version of wic requires the artifacts in the form generated by the build system. Removing workdir obvously causes wic to fail because it can't find roofts. The only thing we can do about it for now is to make an error message more explanatory, i.e. to add info about usage of rm_work task being possible reason of failure. However, I personally don't think it makes sense as it's already explained in documentation. 50087 2 eduard.bartosh 2015-04-04 15:18:31 +0000 Sorry, I put wrong link to documentation in previous comment. Here is the right one: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#wic-requirements 50143 3 eduard.bartosh 2015-04-08 10:42:36 +0000 Resolving as NOTABUG according to my previous explanations. 53868 4 daniel.alexandrux.istrate 2015-09-09 10:42:27 +0000 As Ed previously specified this is by design.