Bug 9314

Summary: Yocto 2.1M3 rc1 Build Appliance: bitbake core-image-minimal with command-line failed
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Runtime Reporter: Ke Zou <ke.zou>
Component: build-applianceAssignee: Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: High CC: alexandru.c.georgescu, yi.zhao, zhangle.yang
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ke Zou 2016-03-21 09:12:59 UTC 
BA location:
http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/releases/yocto-2.1_M3.rc1/build-appliance/

How to reproduce:

Download build appliance and execute virtual machine in vmplayer(ubuntu)
Since HOB has been dropped from Build Appliance,we have to bitbake core-image-minimal from command line. 
Fail message:
OperationalError: attempt to write a readonly database
Comment 1 Juro Bystricky 2016-03-25 00:19:29 UTC 
I downloaded the Build Appliance from
http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/releases/yocto-2.1_M3.rc1/build-appliance/

Uncompressed and ran using VMplayer/Ubuntu (had to configure the network first).
Then, in Terminal <2> I ran

$ bitbake core-image-minimal

I did get an error:
Unable to create '/home/builder/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/pysh/pyshtables.py'
[Errno 22] invalid mode ('w') or filename '/home/builder/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/pysh/pyshtables.py'
I also got a two warnings, but those are expected:
1. Host distribution not validated
2. Build host not configured to process I/O statistics

So it would indicate some permissions/ownership is not set correctly.
I will look into that.

However, the build continued (still building, takes hours to finish it). 
I believe the above error was there even with previous (HOB) BA version, just not directly visible.

In any case, I could not reproduce the originally reported bug.
Can you please provide more details? (exact steps to reproduce, screenshots etc.)
Comment 2 Juro Bystricky 2016-03-25 23:20:21 UTC 
I could not reproduce the bug, although there were some 
permissions related errors. The FS seems to be 
corrupted, for example I cannot create a directory in /home/builder/poky:

# cd /home/builder/poky
# mkdir aaa
mkdir: cannot create directory 'aaa': Invalid argument

(just in poky, I can create directories anywhere else though)

So I think the image on the web is somehow corrupted and hence the
problems (Yocto_Build_Appliance-20160314012314.zip).
Comment 3 Juro Bystricky 2016-03-27 19:28:02 UTC 
Correction. The image is not corrupted, it is a permission error.
Same error(s) were observed when the image was rebuilt locally.
Comment 4 Juro Bystricky 2016-03-28 23:10:21 UTC 
Merged:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7d251f75ebfb6d61c8576a1d7b371f1a0b82f75e

Tested the patch by building core-image-minimal in Build Appliance (using VMplayer) and then booting the resulting image in qemu (outside BA).
Comment 5 Ke Zou 2016-03-31 09:00:33 UTC 
verified with YOCTO build 2.1M3 rc2