Bug 226091

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
Compiler:          GCC 4.4.2 Configured with: /var/uhubuild/work/compile/configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --build=i686-uhu-linux --host=i686-uhu-linux --target=i686-uhu-linux --enable-targets=all --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-64=core2 --with-cpu-32=i686 --with-cpu-64=core2 --disable-multilib --with-tune=generic
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

We’ve noticed this earlier with 4.3.x and have turned off KDE documentation with -DBUILD_doc=FALSE, but since it’s still an issue with 4.4.0, I’m finally reporting it.  No one else seems to be having this problem, so I’m at a loss entirely.

During compilation (kdelibs and some, but not all of the other packages), meinproc4 will hang, waiting for something indefinitely.  I noticed earlier that not all of the XML files cause this, so I could (if I was bored enough to do it) just patch them out one by one from the build process, and leave the rest of them in.

Here’s the bit of the compile output before it locks up:

kio_help4(28319) KBzip2Filter::compress:   bzCompress returned  4
kio_help4(28319) KBzip2Filter::terminate: bzCompressEnd returned  0
[ 98%] Built target rlogin-handbook
Scanning dependencies of target telnet-handbook
[ 98%] Generating index.cache.bz2
kio_help4(28332) KBzip2Filter::compress:   bzCompress returned  4
kio_help4(28332) KBzip2Filter::terminate: bzCompressEnd returned  0
[ 98%] Built target telnet-handbook
Scanning dependencies of target webdav-handbook
[ 98%] Generating index.cache.bz2
kio_help4(28345) KBzip2Filter::compress:   bzCompress returned  4
kio_help4(28345) KBzip2Filter::terminate: bzCompressEnd returned  0
[ 98%] Built target webdav-handbook
Scanning dependencies of target checkXML-manpage-man-checkXML
[ 98%] Generating checkXML.1
Writing checkXML.1 for refentry

And here’s the pstree of the make call (although I kinda expect Bugzilla to mangle it):

ub_make -eu /usr/bin/ub_make MAN1EXT=1 MAN2EXT=2 MAN3EXT=3 MAN4EXT=4 MAN5EXT=5 MAN6EXT=6 MAN7EXT=7 MAN8EXT=8
  └─make -j1 MAN1EXT=1 MAN2EXT=2 MAN3EXT=3 MAN4EXT=4 MAN5EXT=5 MAN6EXT=6 MAN7EXT=7 MAN8EXT=8
      └─make -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 all
          └─make -f doc/checkXML/CMakeFiles/checkXML-manpage-man-checkXML.dir/build.make doc/checkXML/CMakeFiles/checkXML-manpage-man-checkXML.dir/build
              └─sh -c cd /var/uhubuild/work/compile/build/doc/checkXML && ../../bin/meinproc4.shell --stylesheet /var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/docbook/xsl/manpages/docbook.xsl --check --srcdir=/var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/ /var/uhubuild/work/compile/doc/checkXML/man-checkXML.1.docbook
                  └─meinproc4.shell ../../bin/meinproc4.shell --stylesheet /var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/docbook/xsl/manpages/docbook.xsl --check --srcdir=/var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/ /var/uhubuild/work/compile/doc/checkXML/man-checkXML.1.docbook
                      └─meinproc4 --stylesheet /var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/docbook/xsl/manpages/docbook.xsl --check --srcdir=/var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/ /var/uhubuild/work/compile/doc/checkXML/man-checkXML.1.docbook

I also attempted to strace it within the build system chroot by running:
strace -u uhubuild -ff -o /tmp/checkxml.strace ../../bin/meinproc4.shell --stylesheet /var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/docbook/xsl/manpages/docbook.xsl --check --srcdir=/var/uhubuild/work/compile/kdoctools/ /var/uhubuild/work/compile/doc/checkXML/man-checkXML.1.docbook

to which it output that /root/.kde4 cannot be created (certainly, the uhubuild user doesn’t have sufficient rights to that, but this should not happen during a compilation anyway...).  I will attach the resulting strace files as a single tar.gz


How do we go about fixing this?  Any ideas welcome, and if there’s more input needed, I’ll try to provide it.