Error during making own image on WSL Ubuntu

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Hello!

I'm trying to make my own image (v19.07.2) for TP-LINK TL-WR841N on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The commands:

git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
cd openwrt
git checkout v19.07.2
./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a
make prereq

were successfully done.

Than I opened make menuconfig and set

  • Target System
  • Subtarget
  • Target Profile
  • luCI -> Collections -> luci

Nothing more! Then I run make and finally got this:

...
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs, block size 1048576.
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs, block size 1048576.
make[5]: *** [/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/include/image.mk:332: /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs] Error 1
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux/ar71xx/image'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:24: install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux/ar71xx'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:13: install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux'
time: target/linux/install#11.42#19.03#18.33
make[2]: *** [target/Makefile:25: target/linux/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt'
make[1]: *** [target/Makefile:19: /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/stamp/.target_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt'
make: *** [/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:227: world] Error 2

Errors with -V=99:

mkimage -A mips -O linux -T kernel -a 0x80060000 -C lzma  -e 0x80060000 -n 'MIPS OpenWrt Linux-4.14.171' -d /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/vmlinux.bin.lzma /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/bin/targets/ar71xx/tiny/openwrt-ar71xx-tiny-uImage-lzma.bin
Image Name:   MIPS OpenWrt Linux-4.14.171
Created:      Thu Feb 27 21:05:12 2020
Image Type:   MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size:    1242941 Bytes = 1213.81 KiB = 1.19 MiB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point:  80060000
cp /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/loader-generic.elf /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/bin/targets/ar71xx/tiny/openwrt-ar71xx-tiny-vmlinux-lzma.elf
mkdir -p /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/tmp
/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/mksquashfs4 /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs -nopad -noappend -root-owned -comp xz -Xpreset 9 -Xe -Xlc 0 -Xlp 2 -Xpb 2  -b 1024k -p '/dev d 755 0 0' -p '/dev/console c 600 0 0 5 1' -processors 1
FATAL ERROR:nanosleep failed in progress thread
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs, block size 1048576.
make[5]: *** [/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/include/image.mk:332: /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/root.squashfs] Error 1
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux/ar71xx/image'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:24: install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux/ar71xx'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:13: install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/target/linux'
time: target/linux/install#12.34#22.20#20.96
make[2]: *** [target/Makefile:25: target/linux/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt'
make[1]: *** [target/Makefile:19: /home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/stamp/.target_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt'
make: *** [/home/ksc/wrt/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:227: world] Error 2

What's the problem?..

Thank you!

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Never heard about that error.

Is there anything special in your buildhost?
A vanilla Ubuntu or such?

Ps. It would be preferable not to checkout the old 19.07.2 but instead checkout the 19.07 stable branch itself with all the fixes since 19.07.2.

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Does it do it repeatedly?

Only immediate thought is that you're on some form of virtualisation platform where time services aren't behaving "properly". What is Ubuntu installed on?

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Yeah, I'm actually using Ubuntu via WSL. But WSL is widely used so I don't think that is the real reason.

Well, via git tag I see v19.07.0. I think that 19.07.2 is the newer one.

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Yup, it does.

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Where does your WSL build sit in relation these time handling issues on it: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4898? Too many version numbers for me to untangle :o!

EDIT: And https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-and-wsl-1/15291

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That 19.07.2 tag is still old compared to the 19.07 HEAD:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/openwrt-19.07

19.07.2 in Feb 2020 barely fits to the first page in the 19.07 log.

(19.07.0 is naturally a much older tag)
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=summary

The branch logic in general form:

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Ps.
There is a plan of 19.07.3 in near future:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2020-May/001403.html

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Well, I'm not sure what exactly WSL version is used but I think it's WSL 2 since I've installed it recently.

Okay, I see that the problem is related to my local problem with using WSL so I should try WSL support then I guess...

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Well, as I got 19.07.0 and 19.07 is not the same versions.
But I'm unable to checkout 19.07 anyway:

$ git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
$ git checkout 19.07
error: pathspec '19.07' did not match any file(s) known to git
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You use the branch name:

git checkout openwrt-19.07

All branches were listed as "heads" on that git overview page I linked above.
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=summary

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In the begining of making 19.07 I got the following

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/imm/v19.07/scripts/config'
conf.c: In function 'main':
conf.c:620:6: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
  620 |      _("\n*** The configuration requires explicit update.\n\n"));
      |      ^
conf.c:674:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
  674 |    fprintf(stderr, _("\n*** Error during writing of the configuration.\n\n"));
      |    ^~~~~~~
conf.c:678:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
  678 |    fprintf(stderr, _("\n*** Error during update of the configuration.\n\n"));
      |    ^~~~~~~
conf.c:689:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
  689 |    fprintf(stderr, _("\n*** Error during writing of the configuration.\n\n"));
      |    ^~~~~~~
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/imm/v19.07/scripts/config'

And the making process is continuing though. Is it okay?

I'm working in VMWare Uduntu now by the way.

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Wsl 2 is only delivered to the developer ring, I think. It will come publicly available with windows 20H1 in a few weeks. So quite likely you have wsl1

I build OpenWrt with Ubuntu 20.04 in virtualbox, not wsl. Works well.

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This may not be your issue but WSL, Ubuntu 20.04 and nanosleep are not friends lately:

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Use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS wsl install and not the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install. I use the 18.04 to do unsquashfs and it works just fine i think its just something wrong with the 20.04 version. WSL does work. Left is 18.04 and right is 20.04

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