On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that
> you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying
> to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what
> could be more helpful.
Here's another one which, although perhaps slightly off-topic for your
current effort, still seems to fall into all three of the categories you
mentioned :-)
After I made a typo (mismatched quotes) in one of my recipes, my next
bitbake run printed:
Loading cache: 100%
|#####################################################################################################################################################|
ETA: 00:00:00
Loaded 1323 entries from dependency cache.
NOTE: Error expanding variable do_configure
| ETA: --:--:--
ERROR: Command execution failed: Traceback (most recent call
last):#############################
| ETA: 00:00:00
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 99, in runAsyncCommand
self.cooker.updateCache()
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 871, in updateCache
if not self.parser.parse_next():
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 1120, in parse_next
self.shutdown(clean=False)
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 1102, in shutdown
bb.codeparser.parser_cache_save(self.cfgdata)
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py", line 77, in parser_cache_save
data, version = p.load()
EOFError
So, this is (a) confusing, because "EOFError" doesn't yield much
information about the actual cause of the problem; (b) unhelpful, since
it doesn't mention which line of the file (or even which recipe) was to
blame; and (c) annoying, for the usual reasons to do with python
traceback.
Somewhat worse, even after I fixed the typo, any subsequent attempt to
run bitbake would just result in:
Loading cache: 100%
|#####################################################################################################################################################|
ETA: 00:00:00
Loaded 1323 entries from dependency cache.
Traceback (most recent call last):
| ETA: --:--:--
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/util.py", line 235, in
_run_finalizers
finalizer()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/util.py", line 174, in __call__
res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/home/pb/oe/bitbake/lib/bb/codeparser.py", line 77, in parser_cache_save
data, version = p.load()
EOFError
(repeated about 10 times)
I deleted tmp/cache/* and that seemed to fix the problem.
p.
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