[distcc] random make Error 5

[Fergus Henderson]

Hi,

Some basic information might be helpful:
  - what version of distcc?
  - what OS?
  - any other error messages before the "make: *** [DrawContext.o] Error 5"?

If it is an old version of distcc, have you tried upgrading your distcc
client and servers with a recent version, e.g. distcc 3.1?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Paul Eipper <lkraider at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are running distcc for cross-compilation, it works fine sometimes,
> but apparently randomly we get an error like this:
>
> make: *** [DrawContext.o] Error 5
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> when inspecting the DrawContext.o file, it's a gzipped file containing
> the object code. Somehow distcc failed to unzip it or something, and
> the build fails.
>
> More about our setup:
>
> We have /home mounted from NFS, and DISTCC_DIR is set to tmpfs (each
> user has their own dir there). The cross-compilation toolchain is
> mounted from NFS too. Here's the env setup:
>
> CCACHE_DIR=/var/cache/ccache
> CCACHE_NOLINK=1
> CCACHE_UMASK=002
> CCACHE_PREFIX=distcc
> DISTCC_HOSTS="localhost/6 dev"
> PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH
> CONCURRENCY_LEVEL="10"
> DISTCC_DIR=/var/lock/distcc/$USER
>
> HOSTS are linked through a gigabit network.
>
> It seems the build works flawlessly for simple builds (maybe running
> on localhost only? didn't check), but longer ones usually trip on the
> error described above. Manually deleting the .o file and re-running
> the build then works, and may or may not error out on another file
> (seemingly at random).
>
> Is there a way to disable gz somehow completely? Would that solve the
> issue?
>
> --
> Paul Eipper
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Fergus Henderson <fergus at google.com>
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