This issue only occurs on Ubuntu 16.04, it seems due to a missing dependency to libarchive. 2021-10-13 03:07:25,141 - oe-selftest - INFO - ====================================================================== 2021-10-13 03:07:25,141 - oe-selftest - INFO - FAIL: test_diffoscope (reproducible.DiffoscopeTests) 2021-10-13 03:07:25,142 - oe-selftest - INFO - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2021-10-13 03:07:25,142 - oe-selftest - INFO - Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py", line 131, in test_diffoscope run_diffoscope('A', 'A', tmpdir, File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py", line 118, in run_diffoscope return runCmd(['diffoscope', '--no-default-limits', '--exclude-directory-metadata', 'yes', '--html-dir', html_dir, a_dir, b_dir], File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py", line 207, in runCmd raise AssertionError("Command '%s' returned non-zero exit status %d:\n%s" % (command, result.status, exc_output)) AssertionError: Command '['diffoscope', '--no-default-limits', '--exclude-directory-metadata', 'yes', '--html-dir', '/tmp/tmpulzgsw7k', 'A', 'A']' returned non-zero exit status 2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diffoscope/main.py", line 722, in main import libarchive # noqa File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libarchive/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from .entry import ArchiveEntry File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libarchive/entry.py", line 4, in <module> from . import ffi File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libarchive/ffi.py", line 160, in <module> version_number = ffi('version_number', [], c_int, check_int) File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libarchive/ffi.py", line 104, in ffi f = getattr(libarchive, 'archive_'+name) File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/ctypes/__init__.py", line 387, in __getattr__ func = self.__getitem__(name) File "/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible-ubuntu/build/build-st/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/diffoscope-native/182-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib/python3.10/ctypes/__init__.py", line 392, in __getitem__ func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self)) AttributeError: nativepython3: undefined symbol: archive_version_number Missing or incomplete libarchive module. Try installing your system's 'libarchive' package.
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/119/builds/822/steps/13/logs/stdio
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/119/builds/924
Issue occurs on systems using buildtools tarball. Behind the scenes in strace you see it compiling something with gcc to access libarchive and that fails with glibc symbol mismatches since the glibc used for libarchive was newer than the one in buildtools. Upgrading buildtools resolves the issue: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-autobuilder-helper/commit/?id=f5e89b7431fcde4c54617eca2fbeae43557811d8