Build my own Vix image

**LraiZer** · 07-08-21, 21:46

Originally Posted by Huevos

How much RAM did you say you have? That is showing just 12 GB.

And I would set up at least 32 GB swap.

Mine looks like this:

Code:

openvix@ubuntu01:~$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        8149428      405812      168388        2504     7575228     7357200
Swap:      82731000      322752    82408248
openvix@ubuntu01:~$
openvix@ubuntu01:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        8149428 kB
MemFree:          169824 kB
MemAvailable:    7359100 kB
Buffers:         5603596 kB
Cached:           764232 kB
SwapCached:         4812 kB
Active:          3276660 kB
Inactive:        3126072 kB
Active(anon):      20580 kB
Inactive(anon):    16840 kB
Active(file):    3256080 kB
Inactive(file):  3109232 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:      82731000 kB
SwapFree:       82408248 kB
Dirty:               208 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         33500 kB
Mapped:            86172 kB
Shmem:              2504 kB
KReclaimable:    1207844 kB
Slab:            1441752 kB
SReclaimable:    1207844 kB
SUnreclaim:       233908 kB
KernelStack:        4704 kB
PageTables:         5372 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    86805712 kB
Committed_AS:    1058680 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:       48516 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
Percpu:            22656 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemHugePages:        0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FileHugePages:         0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
CmaTotal:              0 kB
CmaFree:               0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
Hugetlb:               0 kB
DirectMap4k:     8121456 kB
DirectMap2M:      256000 kB
DirectMap1G:     2097152 kB
openvix@ubuntu01:~$

Look at you guys showing off with your BIG ram and processors, and yet builds are still crashing running out of RAM

What actually are the bare MINIMUM RAM AND PC SPECS required???

Minimum PC requirements are not really that much to build 5.5 in my case.. the trade off is just build time.

My 10+ year old AthonII PC with just 7 gig ram simultanious runs both windows 10 and a VMware virtual machine building 5.5 in the background at the same time

The VMware virtal machine is set up with only 4 gig ram and 2 gig swap and set to use just 2 of my 4 cores. This leaves 2 core and 3 gig for win10 normal use.

99% of the 5.5 build is done with just 4 gig ram and 2 threads in two days build time in the background.
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2"

It is nodejs that is the big ram stress point in the build, this stress point requires me to build nodejs on its own once the virtual machine runs out of memory at this build stage.
It is the ld linker during nodejs build that is it problem here, the ld linker ram usage jumps up to use up to 7 gig in its own thread.

Once my build fails at nodejs, i temporary edit the site.conf and drop the threads down to a single thread and up the ram a little to 5.3 gig and 2 gig swap as this is the extreme minimum required ram for the ld linker at this point in the build.
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "1"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 1"

At this point i just build nodejs with bitbake on its own.
bitbake nodejs

Then i go back to 2 threads again in site.conf and re-run the build image command once more to finish off the build as normal.

Maybe its nearly time for a new PC?

**Huevos** · 07-08-21, 22:20

@LraiZer, could we have your opinion on another issue please?

https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...l=1#post516123

BrokenUnusableAccount · 07-08-21, 23:26

I tried building a Py3 image with Huevos' oe-alliance-feeds.bbappend file:

Code:

RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = " \
    channelsettings-enigma2-meta \
    kodi-addons-meta \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-kodi \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-qt \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-stalker-qt \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-webkithbbtv \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-webkit \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-gb \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-openhbbtvbrowser \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-chromium \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-libvupldemo \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-stalkerclient \
    ${@bb.utils.contains("DEFAULTTUNE", "sh4", "" , "nodejs", d)} \
    "

and with

Code:

BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"

and it seemed okay with 8 GB RAM and no swap.

Presumably that last line in his file tells it something along the lines of not to bother with nodejs and anything that needs it?

BrokenUnusableAccount · 19-08-21, 01:05

Originally Posted by Huevos

Create a file called "oe-alliance-feeds.bbappend". Goes in "meta-local/recipes-local". Mine looks like this...

Code:

RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = " \
    channelsettings-enigma2-meta \
    kodi-addons-meta \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-kodi \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-qt \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-stalker-qt \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-webkithbbtv \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-webkit \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-hbbtv-gb \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-openhbbtvbrowser \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-chromium \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-libvupldemo \
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-stalkerclient \
    ${@bb.utils.contains("DEFAULTTUNE", "sh4", "" , "nodejs", d)} \
    "

This doesn't seem to work anymore.
I get some cryptic message about RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove containing something that's now incompatible with the current bb version or ??.

**el bandido** · 19-08-21, 03:44

Correct.

Variable RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove contains an operation using the old override syntax

I cannot tell you what the new override syntax is, but maybe Huevos or someone else can.

**Huevos** · 19-08-21, 08:47

Code:

RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = " \

**birdman** · 19-08-21, 12:28

Originally Posted by Huevos

Code:

RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = " \

Would that also mean that XXX_forcevariable should now be XXX:forcevariable?

**Huevos** · 19-08-21, 14:27

See the attached script from open embedded. Works 99%. Misses a few things.

**Huevos** · 19-08-21, 14:28

Originally Posted by birdman

Would that also mean that XXX_forcevariable should now be XXX:forcevariable?

I think yes.

**Willo3092** · 13-09-21, 08:44

Just tried a new build from scratch and getting this error:[

CODE][ERROR: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/image/oe-alliance-feeds.bb: Variable RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove contains an operation using the old override syntax. Please convert this layer/metadata before attempting to use with a newer bitbake.
ERROR: Failed to parse recipe: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/image/oe-alliance-feeds.bb
/CODE]

I think it relates to the override suggested by @Huevos here:

https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...l=1#post516012

BrokenUnusableAccount · 13-09-21, 10:56

Originally Posted by Willo3092

Just tried a new build from scratch and getting this error:[

CODE][ERROR: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/image/oe-alliance-feeds.bb: Variable RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove contains an operation using the old override syntax. Please convert this layer/metadata before attempting to use with a newer bitbake.
ERROR: Failed to parse recipe: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/image/oe-alliance-feeds.bb
/CODE]

I think it relates to the override suggested by @Huevos here:

https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...l=1#post516012

Start here: https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...l=1#post516441

**birdman** · 13-09-21, 12:22

Isn't RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove now RDEPENDS_${PN}:remove?

**Willo3092** · 13-09-21, 13:21

Getting a different error now

[CODE][ERROR: enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3 do_patch: Command Error: 'quilt --quiltrc /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/builds/openvix/release/sf8008/tmp/work/sf8008-oe-linux-gnueabi/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3/recipe-sysroot-native/etc/quiltrc push' exited with 0 Output:
stdout: Applying patch pluginnotwanted.patch
patching file Makefile.am
Hunk #1 FAILED at 21.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 59 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 126 (offset 1 line).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- rejects in file Makefile.am
Patch pluginnotwanted.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)

stderr:
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/builds/openvix/release/sf8008/tmp/work/sf8008-oe-linux-gnueabi/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3/temp/log.do_patch.3542159
ERROR: Task (/media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins.bb:do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
/CODE]

log.do_patch.zip

**twol** · 13-09-21, 13:55

Originally Posted by Willo3092

Getting a different error now

[CODE][ERROR: enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3 do_patch: Command Error: 'quilt --quiltrc /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/builds/openvix/release/sf8008/tmp/work/sf8008-oe-linux-gnueabi/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3/recipe-sysroot-native/etc/quiltrc push' exited with 0 Output:
stdout: Applying patch pluginnotwanted.patch
patching file Makefile.am
Hunk #1 FAILED at 21.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 59 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 126 (offset 1 line).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- rejects in file Makefile.am
Patch pluginnotwanted.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)

stderr:
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/builds/openvix/release/sf8008/tmp/work/sf8008-oe-linux-gnueabi/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins-5.5+gitAUTOINC+c15d041eca-r3/temp/log.do_patch.3542159
ERROR: Task (/media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins.bb:do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
/CODE]

log.do_patch.zip

plugins have just been changed, so until it is updated (I am told that it will be done shortly), then copy the unzipped attached file to
oe-alliance-core/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-plugins/openvix/

**Willo3092** · 13-09-21, 14:56

Yet another error. Should i wait until the updates are complete?

Code:

ERROR: qtwebengine-5.15.2+gitAUTOINC+5537ff4437_f5a93d251c-r0 do_unpack: Unpack failure for URL: 'git://code.qt.io/qt/qtwebengine.git;name=qtwebengine;branch=5.15.2;protocol=git'. No up to date source found: clone directory not available or not up to date: /media/willo/openvix/sources/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebengine.git; shallow clone not enabled
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/builds/openvix/release/sf8008/tmp/work/sf8008-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebengine/qtwebengine-5.15.2+gitAUTOINC+5537ff4437_f5a93d251c-r0/temp/log.do_unpack.3691430
ERROR: Task (/media/willo/openvix/vix-py3/build-enviroment/meta-qt5.15/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebengine_git.bb:do_unpack) failed with exit code '1'
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