I can confirm that this does not happen via ssh.
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Title:
"make: write error: stdout" on parallel builds
Status in linux-signed package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
- Release of Ubuntu: 18.04.1 LTS (Kubuntu).
- Package version: linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic,
linux-image-4.15.0-45-generic.
- Expected outcome: Large parallel make build completing properly.
- What happened instead: Build stops with "make: write error: stdout".
Full explanation:
Since the update to kernel 4.15.0-44 (linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic)
in Kubuntu Bionic I'm experiencing issues in my ThinkPad P52 laptop
during large parallel builds of source code (eg: a buildroot full
rebuild for a work project). Note that this reports isn't about kernel
builds, but about large project builds in general.
I don't think it's relevant, but I'm running those builds in an
schroot with the same Ubuntu Bionic distro I'm also using as main host
distro.
The specific error I get is this (in Spanish):
make[4]: error al escribir: stdout
I call Buildroot's make like this from KDE Konsole with "infinite
history buffer" enabled (uses a tmp file to store the logs):
V=1 make ...some stuff... 2>&1
However, the error is reproducible in Konsole even if I call make
without options and also if I use "limited (in-memory) history buffer"
as well as "no history buffer". Buildroot autoselects a
parallelization level (-j) automatically. In my case, I'm using a Xeon
E-2176 CPU with 12 threads.
Searching on the Internet I found a thread[1] where people from the
GNU Make project say that the error may be coming from the C runtime
library (and I suspect originating from the kernel).
I can NOT reproduce the issue on linux-image-4.15.0-43-generic
(selected from grub at boot), but I experience it with linux-
image-4.15.0-44-generic and linux-image-4.15.0-45-generic. That's why
I'm reporting this bug against the linux package.
Interestingly enough, I can NOT reproduce the issue on linux-
image-4.15.0-45-generic (haven't tried previous versions) when
building from xterm instead of Konsole. Unfortunately, this laptop has
a 4K screen and xterm isn't an option for me.
If I build redirecting stdout and stderr to different files to avoid
terminal output and then watching the stdout file with tail -f, the
tail command eventually finishes although the build continues and I
can keep watching it by running tail again. An infinite build loop
never finishes with this redirection (error not reproducible). Same
results with the 2>&1 redirection to a single file.
All this looks a bit like a poltergeist, but the only thing I'm sure
about is that it all started with the upgrade from 4.15.0-43 to -44
and it continues on -45.
Thank you.
[1]
http://gnu-make.2324884.n4.nabble.com/Spurious-quot-write-error-quot-on-parallel-builds-td15695.html
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