Bitbake (e.g. Yocto) hangs in step: parsing recipes

Question

Bitbake (e.g. Yocto) suddenly hangs in the build step: parsing recipes. It does never reach 100%. How can I fix this ?

Answer 1

Delete the bitbake cache. E.g.:

rm tmp/cache/default-glibc/phyboard-mira-imx6-14/x86_64/*