Error while making opie-image

[oxstone]

Hello,

I'm trying to compile my own openzaurus initrd.bin and zimage. I
followed instructions given in the oe_wiki:
http://www.openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/RDay5500

However, when I type:
oemake opie-image
, the process is killed! Here's the last lines of the output:

DEBUG: bindir-libdir bindir-libdir.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/bindir-libdir.patch'
as 'bindir-libdir.patch'
DEBUG: cross-distutils cross-distutils.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/cross-distutils.patch'
as 'cross-distutils.patch'
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_patch completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure started
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_compile started
Killed

I tried several times (each time, I deleted the tmp directory contents),
and I always got that "Killed" message. I NEVER cancelled the process.

What could be wrong?

Thanks for the help.

[CoreDump]

Hello,

I'm trying to compile my own openzaurus initrd.bin and zimage. I
followed instructions given in the oe_wiki:
http://www.openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/RDay5500

However, when I type:
oemake opie-image
, the process is killed! Here's the last lines of the output:

DEBUG: bindir-libdir bindir-libdir.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/bindir-libdir.patch'
as 'bindir-libdir.patch'
DEBUG: cross-distutils cross-distutils.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/cross-distutils.patch'
as 'cross-distutils.patch'
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_patch completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure started
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_compile started
Killed

I tried several times (each time, I deleted the tmp directory contents),
and I always got that "Killed" message. I NEVER cancelled the process.

What could be wrong?

Thanks for the help.

Maybe you are experiencing the kernel OOM killer.
You need _at the very least_ 500Mb of RAM to run OE.
1000Mb is recomended.

[lardman]

You need _at the very least_ 500Mb of RAM to run OE

hmm, not quite true...

It runs fine on my box with 256Mb RAM and very very very very slowly (but I've still managed to create an opie-image) on another with 64Mb of RAM.

Perhaps you need to adjust your swap if this is really a memory issue.


Si

[oxstone]

The problem came from the fact that I did not set a swap partition on my home computer. I thought 645Mo of RAM would always be sufficient, but I was wrong. I set up a swap partition, and the make process ran fine.
Thanks!