Creating images using Ansible playbook does not work when running compile.sh non interactive.

[Stefanita Vilcu]

Hello, 
I need to create images for multiple boards (rpi4b, rpi5b, rock3a, rock5b, orangepi5, orangepi-plus, nanopct6 and khadas-vim4) for a Kubernetes cluster running ceph and cilium, hence I need some new modules and parameters in the kernel. 
I created a simple playbook that changes the parameters in build/config/kernel/linux-* which works.  What does not work is calling compile.sh with the required parameters.  The task gives an error and stops after 5 minutes or so. If I run the commands from the prompt, everything is fine...but not convenient.  
The Ubuntu VM used for the compilation is created on a Fedora 40, with Vagrant, and I gave it 30 cores and 30GB of RAM with plenty of disk to run.

	vars:
      board_build:
        rpi4b: "BOARD=rpi4b BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        rpi5b: "BOARD=rpi5b BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no \
          DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers desktop_tools internet multimedia remote_desktop' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce \
          DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=jammy"
        rock3a: "BOARD=rock-3a BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        rock5b: "BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        opi5: "BOARD=orangepi5 BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        opi5p: "BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        nanopct6_edge: "BOARD=nanopct6 BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        nanopct6_legacy: "BOARD=nanopct6 BRANCH=legacy BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"
        vim4: "BOARD=khadas-vim4 BRANCH=legacy BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes CLI_TARGET=bullseye KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm"

	[...]
    - name: Compile images
      ignore_errors: true
      ansible.builtin.shell: |
        ./compile.sh {{ board_build[item] }}
      args:
        executable: /bin/bash
        chdir: build
      register: compile_output
      changed_when: true
      loop: "{{ board_build.keys() }}"
      loop_control:
        label: "{{ item }}"

Thank you, 

Stefanita Vilcu
 

[laibsch]

Interesting thing you are doing there.  Is this still something you are interested in getting resolved? Were you able to get it resolved on your own?  Apologies for the late response.

[IBV]

On 4/24/2024 at 1:00 PM, Stefanita Vilcu said:

The task gives an error and stops after 5 minutes or so

It would be interesting to see the error..

Also, without being knowledgeable with Ansible, to me it looks like a command timeout (5 minutes?).

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/shell_module.html