[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] kill-bb: Add it for killing abnormal bitbake processes

[Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 11:21:24AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 02/08/2019 11:24, Robert Yang wrote:
> > There might be processes left after Ctr-C, e.g.:
> > $ rm -f tmp/cache/default-glibc/qemux86/x86_64/
> > $ bitbake -p
> > 
> > Press 'Ctrl-C' multiple times during parsing, then bitbake processes may not
> > exit, and the worse is that we can't start bitbake again, we can't always
> > reproduce this, but sometime. We can only use "ps ux" to find the processes and
> > kill them one by one. This tool can kill all of them easily.
> I've noticed this, and also noticed that it got a lot worse recently.
> 
> But let's fix bitbake instead of adding tools to work around it?

I run builds in lxc containers for this and host contamination reasons.

Several build tools can also escape the bitbake environment and keep
running in the build machine if bitbake itself ends or gets killed,
so the problems are not only with bitbake.

-Mikko