imx8ulp_evk build with buildman fails every other time

[Jerome Forissier]

Hi,

Can someone explain what's happening with the imx8ulp_evk buildman build
below? It either fails with a mkimage error, or succeeds with a binman
warning, every other time. 100% reproducible. /me confused :o

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$ docker run -it --rm trini/u-boot-gitlab-ci-runner:jammy-20240808-21Aug2024
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:/$ cd
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~$ git clone https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot.git
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~/u-boot$ git log --oneline -n 1
ee2af844ba (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge tag 'efi-2024-10-rc4' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~$ cd u-boot
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~/u-boot$ tools/buildman/buildman imx8ulp_evk
Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 24 jobs per thread)
   aarch64:  w+   imx8ulp_evk
+WARNING 'mx8ulpa2-ahab-container.img' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'bl31.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'upower.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'm33_image.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
    0    1    0 /1              imx8ulp_evk
Completed: 1 total built, 1 newly), duration 0:00:09, rate 0.11
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~/u-boot$ tools/buildman/buildman imx8ulp_evk
Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 24 jobs per thread)
   aarch64:  +   imx8ulp_evk
+WARNING 'bl31.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+binman: Error 1 running 'mkimage -d ./mkimage.spl.mkimage -n spl/u-boot-spl.cfgout -T imx8image -e 0x22020000 ./mkimage-out.spl.mkimage': Fail open first container file mx8ulpa2-ahab-container.img
+
+make[1]: *** [Makefile:1126: .binman_stamp] Error 1
+make: *** [Makefile:177: sub-make] Error 2
    0    0    1 /1              imx8ulp_evk
Completed: 1 total built, 1 newly), duration 0:00:04, rate 0.25
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~/u-boot$ tools/buildman/buildman imx8ulp_evk
Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 24 jobs per thread)
   aarch64:  w+   imx8ulp_evk
+WARNING 'mx8ulpa2-ahab-container.img' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'upower.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'm33_image.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+WARNING 'bl31.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
    0    1    0 /1              imx8ulp_evk
Completed: 1 total built, 1 newly), duration 0:00:04, rate 0.25
uboot at 42aa85c2d6b7:~/u-boot$ tools/buildman/buildman imx8ulp_evk
Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 24 jobs per thread)
   aarch64:  +   imx8ulp_evk
+WARNING 'bl31.bin' not found, resulting binary may be not-functional
+binman: Error 1 running 'mkimage -d ./mkimage.spl.mkimage -n spl/u-boot-spl.cfgout -T imx8image -e 0x22020000 ./mkimage-out.spl.mkimage': Fail open first container file mx8ulpa2-ahab-container.img
+
+make[1]: *** [Makefile:1126: .binman_stamp] Error 1
+make: *** [Makefile:177: sub-make] Error 2
    0    0    1 /1              imx8ulp_evk
Completed: 1 total built, 1 newly), duration 0:00:04, rate 0.25
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Thanks,
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Jerome