Re: Unending item build

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi Michael and Matthias,

On 08/06/2026 16:09, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> On 08.06.2026 16:03, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello Matthias,
> Hi Michael,
>
>>> On 8 Jun 2026, at 12:58, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to warm up an old problem...perhaps I found something like a
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> The original problem is rather old - it dates from 2025-01-15. It still
>>> can be found here:
>>> https://marc.info/?l=ipfire-development&m=173691503411708
>>>
>>> Once in a while I experienced the same problem like Jon - building
>>> stopped suddenly: "./make.sh build  goes into a loop and builds an item
>>> forever." And it doesn't matter which item. Either the counter kept
>>> running indefinitely, or it stopped displaying anything at all.
>>>
>>> That was pretty annoying. No errors, nothing in the logs. After stopping
>>> the build with CTRL-C and restarting the whole build, usually everything
>>> ran through and worked again as if nothing had happened.
>>>
>>> The last message often was just "make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/lfs'"
>>> and that was all.
>>>
>>> Lastly I was thinking it might have something to do with counters.
>>> So I changed "while sleep 1" to "while sleep 2" in 'make.sh'. Nothing more.
>>>
>>> Since then buildings are running without stopping anymore...
>>>
>>> Did anyone had similar problems?
>> Very rarely. I think I have seen it before, but I cannot reproduce it at all.
> Yep. It happens just now and then, you never know when and why...

I also very occasionally get the same problem. I have also had it when 
doing a build on the IPFire aarch64 and riscv64 builder.
>> I am happy to remove the timer entirely because it would be sufficient to see the build time after the package has finished building.
> +1. You got my vote. The simpler, the better.
>> Would anyone be opposed to that?
> No. ;-)

I have no problems with that.

Regards,

Adolf.
> Best
> Matthias
>
>

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