On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:42:58PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote: > Paul, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com] > > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 1:57 PM > > To: Bryan Evenson > > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > > Subject: Re: [OE-core] sysvinit upgrade woes > > > > Hi Bryan, > > > > On Thursday 16 April 2015 13:53:14 Bryan Evenson wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org > > > > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On > > Behalf > > > > Of Bryan Evenson > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:26 AM > > > > To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > > > > Subject: [OE-core] sysvinit upgrade woes > > > > > > > > I am using opkg for package management and sysvinit for init. I am > > > > testing a large jump on an upgrade and I have been having a few issues. > > > > One issue I have traced to sysvinit's upgrade, but I'm unsure how to > > > > remedy the solution. > > > > > > > > At some point during the upgrade process, opkg records what the new > > > > version is of all the packages getting installed. However, when I > > > > upgrade sysvinit causes sysvinit to restart before opkg has recorded > > > > which packages were just installed. So opkg thinks that it didn't > > > > upgrade anything even though all packages were upgraded. I verified > > > > that if I call "opkg upgrade" for all packages that require upgrade > > > > except for sysvinit that opkg correctly records which packages were > > > > upgraded. However, the end user doesn't have that kind of control, > > > > so upgrading in this manner is not an option. > > > > > > > > Has anyone else seen a similar issue? Any ideas on how to hold off > > > > sysvinit from restarting until after opkg has finished recording its > > > > information? > > > > > > I've found the problem but don't yet have a good solution. At the end > > > of the sysvinit-inittab pkg_postinst script is the line: > > > > > > kill -HUP 1 > > > > > > This kills init before opkg has finished doing its job. On my system, > > > I've added a .bbappend with a pk_postinst script as follows for items > > > that require a reboot after installation: > > > > > > touch /var/run/reboot-required > > > echo "${PN}" >>/var/run/reboot-required.pkgs > > > > > > After my system performs firmware upgrade, it checks if > > > /var/run/reboot-required exists and then reboots the system. So on my > > > system, I changed the pkg_postinst script for sysvinit-inittab to > > > replace the "kill -HUP 1" with the reboot required notations. > > > > > > Is there some suitable solution that would be reasonable to change in > > > the sysvinit-inittab recipe that would work for other people? > > > > SIGHUP is supposed to make sysvinit re-read inittab, not kill it. Can you > > tell > > what is actually happening? > > Ah, I don't know for sure what is happening but now I have a different guess. > I have tried running the upgrade with "opkg -V4 upgrade" (insanely verbose > debug output) and I can tell that is doing the postinst scripts when the > upgrade stops and I get logged out. I am doing my testing through the debug > serial port on my system. My best guess without further proof is that the > SIGHUP restarts my terminal which in turn kills "opkg upgrade" which was > commanded through my terminal. > > If that is what is happening, then the upgrade should continue normally if I > send it to the background ("opkg upgrade &"), correct? Or it would run just > fine if a cron job started the upgrade?
You can also run it in GNU screen session to verify this. I remember seeing this behavior couple years ago and I prefer screen since then (also for using the same screen after you set the network over serial cable and then want to continue in the same shell but over network). > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > -- > > > > Paul Eggleton > > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
