On the boot phase of a QEMU PPC image, there is hang, and login prompt is never reached. These are the last 25 lines observed from the kernel log:

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NOTE: core-image-lsb-1.0-r0 do_testimage: Target didn't reached login boot in 1500 seconds
NOTE: core-image-lsb-1.0-r0 do_testimage: Last 25 lines of text:
Starting Distributed Compiler Daemon: distcc.

hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory

[   27.981581] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
starting 8 nfsd kernel threads: [   28.184675] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
[   28.185830] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period (net c0ac6978)
done

starting mountd: done

Starting system log daemon...0

Starting kernel log daemon...0

Starting internet superserver: xinetd.

 * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon

Starting random number generator daemon.

Starting Lighttpd Web Server: lighttpd.

Starting crond: OK
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Perhaps this is duplicate but decided to file it.

Complete AB build info:

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Build status: FAILURE Build worker for this Build: opensuse423.yocto.io
Complete logs for all build steps: https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-ppc-lsb/builds/553
Build Reason: A build was forced by 'ross ': next respin
Build Properties:
• Contents of bblayers.conf (Note. LCONF_VERSION will not show up correctly)
POKY_BBLAYERS_CONF_VERSION =
BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"
BBFILES ?=""
BBLAYERS += " \
/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-ppc-lsb/build/meta \
/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-ppc-lsb/build/meta-poky \
/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-ppc-lsb/build/meta-yocto-bsp \
"

• BuildImages : core-image-lsb core-image-lsb-sdk
• DEST : /srv/autobuilder/autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/nightly-ppc-lsb/20171103-1
• DISTRO : poky-lsb
• KEEP_BUILD_HIST : False
• Contents of auto.conf (local.conf for autobuilders)
INHERIT += "report-error"
DISTRO = "poky-lsb"
PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "24"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 28"
SDKMACHINE ?= "i686"
BB_TASK_NICE_LEVEL = "5"
BB_TASK_NICE_LEVEL_task-testimage = "0"
BB_TASK_IONICE_LEVEL = "2.7"
BB_TASK_IONICE_LEVEL_task-testimage = "2.1"
DL_DIR = "/srv/autobuilder/autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/current_sources"
SSTATE_DIR ?= "/srv/autobuilder/autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/sstate/"
MACHINE = "mpc8315e-rdb"
PREMIRRORS = ""
BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
PRSERV_HOST = "localhost:0"
ADTREPO = "http://adtrepo.yoctoproject.org//2.4"
QEMU_USE_KVM = "True"
SDK_EXT_TYPE = "minimal"
SDK_INCLUDE_TOOLCHAIN = "1"
SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS = ""
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