Bug 4937

Summary: Error at rootfs time: "tar: .: file changed as we read it"
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Component: coreAssignee: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: liezhi.yang, mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, sgw, yi.zhao
Version: 1.4   
Target Milestone: 1.5 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Chen Qi 2013-07-29 02:21:19 UTC
More detailed error message below:

     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/707971e003b4ae6c8121c3a920e507f5-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/fe547fea3a41b43a38975d292a2b19c7-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/c855463f699352c367813e37f3f70ea7-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/94322f4d3cdf1bd54794b691285ca062-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/CACHEDIR.TAG
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/fontconfig/6333f38776742d18e214673cd2c24e34-le32d4.cache-3
     | ./var/cache/rpm/
     | ./var/cache/ldconfig/
     | ./var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache
     | tar: .: file changed as we read it


If we are building a read-only rootfs, this error will appear now and then.
The root cause is that we spawn background process in populate-volatile.sh.

//Chen Qi
Comment 1 Chen Qi 2013-08-19 01:47:18 UTC
Commit: 4bd419f95868d5b8707a45cee5f6c5c6a840a65b
URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=4bd419f95868d5b8707a45cee5f6c5c6a840a65b