[ovirt-users] Building oVirt engine on Debian

[Leni Kadali Mutungi]

On 5/25/17, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Leni Kadali Mutungi
> <lenikmutungi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ran `make clean install-dev` and the process freezes at:
>> [INFO] weaveinfo Join point 'constructor-execution(void
>> com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.ControlFlowAnalyzer.<init>(com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.ast.JProgram))'
>> in Type 'com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.ControlFlowAnalyzer'
>> (ControlFlowAnalyzer.java:905) advised by after advice from
>> 'org.ovirt.engine.ui.gwtaop.DontPrune' (DontPrune.java)
>>
>> My computer freezes at that point and I have to power it off. I tried
>> doing it in the terminal without the Desktop Environment and I get the
>> same result. The component being built is the UI Common Web. Advice on
>> what to do next is appreciated.
>
> How long did you wait?
10-15 minutes. I tried 30 minutes at one point.
> Perhaps you run out of memory? How much do you have?
8GB of RAM, 16GB of swap
> Was the kernel not responding either?
I have no idea; have never been in a situation where the kernel
doesn't respond. When I was running the build in a virtual terminal, I
would become unable to access the other terminals using Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
F6 after I attempted to access the GUI on F7.
> You can search the net for general debugging techniques for such
> occasions. E.g. you can (beforehand):
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> Then you can press Alt-SysRq-m to see (in text console) memory status
> and Alt-SysRq-t to see some information about each running task.
I'll try this, thanks.
> Did you increase number of max open file descriptors?
No I didn't. Will also do.
> Building the gwt ui is a very heavy process.
> You can build for firefox only by passing BUILD_ALL_USER_AGENTS=0,
> or not build it at all by passing BUILD_GWT=0.
Will try this as a last resort.

-- 
- Warm regards
Leni Kadali Mutungi