Re: buildworld: "cp: /dev/null: Invalid argument"

> On 12. Sep 2020, at 11:06, Hartmann, O. <o.hartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:03:18 +0200
> Michael Gmelin <freebsd_at_grem.de> wrote:
> 
>>> On 12. Sep 2020, at 09:55, Hartmann, O. <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:18:33 -0600
>>> Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:57 AM O. Hartmann
>>>>> <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:44:08 -0600
>>>>> Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>> No, it's devfs.  I'll fix it.
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:18 AM Ryan Stone <rysto32_at_gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:   
>>>>>>> I'm curious: does this give a similar issue?
>>>>>>> touch /tmp/foo
>>>>>>> cp /tmp/foo /tmo/foo2
>>>>>>> I'm wondering if the issue is that copy_file_range isn't
>>>>>>> handling empty files, or if it's a devfs issue.
>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:45 AM Michael Butler
>>>>>>> <imb_at_protected-networks.net> wrote:    
>>>>>>>> It seems that SVN r365549 broke "cp /dev/null ..."
>>>>>>>>  imb
>>>>>>>>>> On 9/10/20 10:35 AM, Michael Butler wrote:    
>>>>>>>>>>> Is anyone else seeing failures like this in building world
>>>>>>>>>>> and, in    
>>>>>>> my    
>>>>>>>>>>> case, cron jobs as well?
>>>>>>>>>>> Building    
>>>>>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.ldr    
>>>>>>>>>>> --- all_subdir_sbin ---
>>>>>>>>>>> Building /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel
>>>>>>>>>>> --- all_subdir_stand ---
>>>>>>>>>>> --- zfsboot.ldr ---
>>>>>>>>>>> cp: /dev/null: Invalid argument
>>>>>>>>>>> *** [zfsboot.ldr] Error code 1
>>>>>>>>>>> make[5]: *** zfsboot.ldr removed
>>>>>>>>>>> --- all_subdir_kerberos5 ---
>>>>>>>>>>> Building    
>>>>>>>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/kerberos5/usr.sbin/iprop-log/iprop-log
>>>>>>>>>>> --- all_subdir_stand ---
>>>>>>>>>>> make[5]: stopped in /usr/src/stand/i386/zfsboot
>>>>>>>>>>> .ERROR_TARGET='zfsboot.ldr'
>>>>>>> .ERROR_META_FILE='/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.ldr.meta'
>>>>>>>>>>> .MAKE.LEVEL='5'
>>>>>>>>>>> MAKEFILE=''
>>>>>>>>>>> .MAKE.MODE='meta missing-filemon=yes missing-meta=yes
>>>>>>>>>>> silent=yes    
>>>>>>>>> verbose'    
>>>>>>>>>>> _ERROR_CMD='cp /dev/null zfsboot.ldr;'
>>>>>>>>>>> .CURDIR='/usr/src/stand/i386/zfsboot'
>>>>>>>>>>> .MAKE='make'
>>>>>>>>>>> .OBJDIR='/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/stand/i386/zfsboot'
>>>>>>>>>>> .TARGETS='all'
>>>>>>>>>>> DESTDIR='/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/tmp'
>>>>>>>>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=''
>>>>>>>>>>> MACHINE='amd64'
>>>>>>>>>>> MACHINE_ARCH='amd64'
>>>>>>>>>>> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=''
>>>>>>>>>>> MAKESYSPATH='/usr/src/share/mk'
>>>>>>>>>>> MAKE_VERSION='20200902'
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>>>>>>> I still get this error on a couple of boxes, while others seem to
>>>>>>> buildworld
>>>>>>> fine. All boxes are at CURRENT revision 365625. It is a bit
>>>>>>> looking weird to
>>>>>>> me. Running now a make cleanworld/cleandir on the specific boxes
>>>>>>> and start building OS again.
>>>>>>> oh
>>>>>> I don't know why it's intermittent, but in any case this patch
>>>>>> should fix it:
>>>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26395
>>>>>> -Alan  
>>>> I checked on ALL CURRENT boxes. After "make cleanworld cleandir" (or
>>>> just deleting usr/obj/) and starting a fresh build, those boxes
>>>> with an newer kernel all fail at the very same point. We use
>>>> META_MODE on some boxes, switched to WITHOUT_CLEAN these days and
>>>> cleanded up on some systems therefore. That might be the reason why
>>>> the problem occurs not consistently on all systems.
>>>> When will the pacth be committed?
>> Alan already committed it:
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=365643
>> -m
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> oh  
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> 
> Sources at:
> 
> At revision 365652.
> 
> Host is running kernel FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #20 r365382: Fri Sep 11
> 19:01:26 CEST 2020 amd64.
> 
> make -j4 buildworld buildkernel
> 
> quit with same error as shown below.
> 
> Is there anything that has to prepared before to successfully apply and
> run this patch?

Well, you have a broken cp binary on your system, which makes the build process fail.

The workaround Rainer posted earlier (install cp from the source tree before buildworld) should do the trick.

-m


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> nlist.h setjmp.h stddef.h stdbool.h string.h strings.h time.h unistd.h
> uuid.h; do  ln -sf /usr/src/include/$i $i;  done;  ln -sf
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> /usr/src/include/arpa/tftp.h arpa/tftp.h;  for i in _time.h _strings.h
> _string.h; do  [ -f xlocale/$i ] || cp /dev/null xlocale/$i;  done;
> for i in ctype.h fcntl.h signal.h stdio.h stdlib.h; do  ln -sf
> /usr/src/stand/libsa/stand.h $i;  done cp: /dev/null: Invalid argument
> *** [beforedepend] Error code 1
> 
> make[4]: stopped in /usr/src/stand/libsa32
> --- all_subdir_rescue ---
> *** [iscsictl_make] Error code 2