main: Attempt to gain bitbake.lock rather than just waiting

Rather than just waiting for 5s, try and get the lockfile. If we gain
the lock, we know we're ready to retry and can skip any remaining timeout.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/main.py b/lib/bb/main.py
index 07972f69e..6e6a346a0 100755
--- a/lib/bb/main.py
+++ b/lib/bb/main.py
@@ -446,7 +446,15 @@ def setup_bitbake(configParams, configuration, extrafeatures=None):
                     logger.info("Reconnecting to bitbake server...")
                     if not os.path.exists(sockname):
                         print("Previous bitbake instance shutting down?, waiting to retry...")
-                        time.sleep(5)
+                        i = 0
+                        lock = None
+                        # Wait for 5s or until we can get the lock
+                        while not lock and i < 50:
+                            time.sleep(0.1)
+                            _, lock = lockBitbake()
+                            i += 1
+                        if lock:
+                            bb.utils.unlockfile(lock)
                         raise bb.server.process.ProcessTimeout("Bitbake still shutting down as socket exists but no lock?")
                 if not configParams.server_only:
                     try: