[OE-core] [meta-oe] Problems on downloading sources (was Problems downloading xfwm4 4.8.1)

[Andreas Mueller]

On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:35:05 AM Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 00:38 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > On Monday, July 18, 2011 11:19:01 PM Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > > On Monday, July 18, 2011 11:10:55 PM you wrote:
> > > > Ciao
> > > > 
> > > > currently I am porting my local oe recipes for xfce-4.8 to oe-core.
> > > > Everything seems fine so far - except xfwm4. This one drives me
> > > > totally insane: If you check the fetch log attched and copy the
> > > > first url into a browser it starts downloading without problems but
> > > > oe complains.
> > > > 
> > > > Could somebody please point me onto what is going wrong - if you need
> > > > further information I'll send...
> > > 
> > > I found a hook on what is going wrong - forget my prevoius mail - sorry
> > > fo the noise..
> > 
> > Sorry but my 'hook' was some late night crap.
> > 
> > I attached what I did up to now. It is meta-xfce which should live in
> > meta- openembedded. I checked on fresh tmp and without downloaded
> > sources. For (at least) xfwm4 and xfce4-appfinder build fails when
> > downloading sources. For xfce4- appfinder I get:
> > 
> > ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
> > 'http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-
> > appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2'. Unable to fetch URL
> > http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-appfinder-4.8.
> > 0.tar.bz2 from any source.' failed
> > ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-
> > eglibc/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0-
> > r0/temp/log.do_fetch.30009
> > 
> > Log data follows:
> > | NOTE: fetch http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-
> > 
> > appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2
> > 
> > | NOTE: fetch
> > | http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/sources/xfce4-
> > 
> > appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2
> > 
> > | ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
> > 'http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-
> > appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2'. Unable to fetch URL
> > http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-appfinder-4.8.
> > 0.tar.bz2 from any source.' failed
> > NOTE: package xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0-r0: task do_fetch: Failed
> > 
> > If I enter http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-
> > appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2 in my browser or perform wget manually, the
> > source file is downloaded properly!!
> > 
> > Could somebody please spend some time with the attachment and tell me
> > what's going on here??
> 
> I'd guess it's Yocto #1256[1], namely that "fetcher reports a download
> failure when only the SRC_URI checksums mismatched"
> 
> The idea is that the fetcher retries downloads a few times when the
> checksums do not match, unfortunately at the default log level this just
> looks like a fetch failure.
> 
> Can you run bitbake with -DD and see if you can see a checksum error? Or
> just verify checksums by hand?
> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua
> 1. http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256
Thank you *very* much for pointing on this - this confused me totally...

Andreas