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[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Heiko, All,

On 2021-02-05 15:42 +0100, Heiko Thiery spake thusly:
> Am Fr., 5. Feb. 2021 um 09:18 Uhr schrieb Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>:
> >    xtensa    |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e21834d4d2ee580f00f0fdcbd3728787148c0da9
> >    nios2     |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e9bfe730da3faec5884e8950855a34541c3408a9
> > microblazeel |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/99ca5aa18074b19f2e6a311c2d38addb697f552b
> >   powerpc    |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/2b9ad4626a1b6918a8e8d586521626306f5f8133
> > microblazeel |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/65108399fb6d7b02d812bc15d5074bfd404764c5
> >    nios2     |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/6730e1e6ceebec94a9ad27deac0a4d1bf4661536
> >   powerpc    |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/16bf1c3b4059a159480d23e6e132dcff05bd9b96
> > powerpc64le  |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/985aac8fd746c64e4ad0e093028164d8ae637409
> >    mipsel    |        netopeer2-1.1.53        | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/da0e36543cf68e4e9bbe819945a884193f33819a
> 
> I checked the reason for the build failure on the netopeer2 package.
> It is caused by some files that are created in /dev/shm/sr_* during
> the installation process.
> 
> I tried to find a solution for that. My first intention was to do a
> PRE_INSTALL_HOOK that deletes these files before the installation. But
> YANN disclaimed that because we should never delete files in

*Yann, please. ;-)

So, first, there was a misunderstanding on my side. I thought /dev/shm
would contain system-level nodes. But I was confused, probably with pts
et al. Anyway, /dev/shm is the place where glibc will first look at to
create the files that backs shared memoru (shm). Removing files in there
is in fact not an issue per-se (although leftover files means something
is not cleaning up nicely behind them, and misses calling shm_unlink()).

Second, once I noticed that, my oposition to removing files in there is
that it can remove more than expected, and espcially, it may removes
frils from another, concurrent run. So we can not removes files using
wildcards.

Removing /dev/shm/sr_* is wrong.

> /dev/shm/. This could lead to failures when doing concurrent parallel
> builds.

That.

> To be more detailed what is going on:
> The netopeer2 package can install the required yang models for runtime
> during installation. Therefore an additional script (setup.sh) is
> invoked. There the sysrepocfg host tool is used to do the installation
> of these yang models. sysrepo will then create this /dev/shm files and
> leave them. But with the updated netopeer2 package the shm files are
> incompatible and the build errors appear.
> 
> So I see here 3 possible solutions:
> 1. do the PRE_INSTALL_HOOK to remove the files every time (disclaimed by Yann).
> 2. remove this files by hand (no long term solution).
> 3. disable the installation of the yang modules .. but then we have a
> non functional installation available and we leave the installation of
> the yang modules to the user.
> 
> What do you think?

4. Fix sysrepo to clean up when it quits.

And also make sure nothing is left running that still have those shared
ememory opened (e.g. a forked sysrepo still lurking in the background?)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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