[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#626826: Bug#626826: sbuild: /var/lock being absolute symlink -> "Another sbuild process (...) is currently using the build chroot"

[Roger Leigh]

tags 626826 + fixed-upstream pending
thanks

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:25:19PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: sbuild
> Version: 0.62.2-1
> 
> Due to the advent of /run, I manually changed layout of my chroots,
> so that they look like this:
> 
> $ ls -ld /srv/chroots/unstable-i386/{var,run}/lock
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 May 15 01:19 /srv/chroots/unstable-i386/run/lock
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    9 May 15 14:59 /srv/chroots/unstable-i386/var/lock -> /run/lock
> 
> Unfortunately, sbuild is not happy with such a layout, and I cannot
> build more than one package in parallel (even though I use cloned
> chroots, so it should be possible). I get this message instead:
> 
> Another sbuild process (job zlib_1.2.3.4.dfsg-3, pid 5534 by user sbuild) is currently using the build chroot; waiting...
> 
> It looks like sbuild uses /run/lock from the outside of the chroot.
> When I changed the symlink to a relative one, the problem
> disappeared.

I moved to using /var/lib/sbuild/chroot-lock (inside the chroot)
which prevents the use of /run/lock/sbuild on the host, so this
won't cause problems for parallel builds.


Regards,
Roger

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