Bug 4847

Summary:	Build Appliance is unable to restart in vmWare Player
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Runtime	Reporter:	Cristian Iorga <cristian.iorga>
Component:	build-appliance	Assignee:	Cristian Iorga <cristian.iorga>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	alexandru.c.georgescu, Qi.Chen, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.5 M3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2370

Description Cristian Iorga 2013-07-12 14:31:54 UTC

BA is unable to start correctly after a reboot issued from shell.
The boot process hangs on the splash screen, near the end of boot process.

Happens on commit a63229917a5708de2d161aba0d67168ce0da6365, on master.

Issue is not reproducible on YP 1.4 BA release.

Comment 1 Cristian Iorga 2013-07-12 14:33:08 UTC

This issue blocks proper testing of the YB2370 feature implementation.

Comment 2 Cristian Iorga 2013-07-12 14:33:25 UTC

Investigation started.

Comment 3 Saul Wold 2013-07-15 15:17:05 UTC

Could this be related to the tar issue with udev?  See bug #4815

Comment 4 Cristian Iorga 2013-07-16 07:23:21 UTC

I've done some tests, and at first look, the issues don't seem related.

Corneliu states that using "shutdown -h now" works correctly to restart the VM, but this is not the case in Build Appliance, BA hangs during boot. This is the same behavior as to when the machine is restarted with "reboot".

Comment 5 Chen Qi 2013-07-16 07:35:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> I've done some tests, and at first look, the issues don't seem related.
> 
> Corneliu states that using "shutdown -h now" works correctly to restart the
> VM, but this is not the case in Build Appliance, BA hangs during boot. This
> is the same behavior as to when the machine is restarted with "reboot".

'shutdown -h now' doesn't work well.

The problem is that gnu's tar cannot extract device files correctly in OE. The device numbers are always 0.

Please see https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4815 for more details.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

Comment 6 Chen Qi 2013-07-16 17:17:34 UTC

Hi Cristian,

To avoid duplicate efforts, please use the following commands to see whether this is the same bug with 4815, which is actually the tar package's problem.

cd /home/root
(cd /; tar /home/root/dev.tar dev/null dev/console;)
tar xf dev.tar
stat dev/null
stat dev/console

If the major and minor device numbers are all 0, it's the same problem with 4815, otherwise, it's not the same problem.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

Comment 7 Cristian Iorga 2013-07-23 16:40:13 UTC

Fixed with commit f1f5f7d3b45adb4e6d52dec11462fa658ccda1ec.
link: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f1f5f7d3b45adb4e6d52dec11462fa658ccda1ec

Comment 8 Alexandru Georgescu 2013-10-17 10:58:18 UTC

I could restart the VM. Also #4815 is fixed so marking this as Verified.