[OE-core] Poor first impression

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Wed May 22 11:57:49 UTC 2013


On 2013-05-21 16:56, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 12:13 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2013-05-21 03:10, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 07:26 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I just tried to run Poky/Yocto on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 system.  I knew there would
>>>> be missing bits and have seen the "sanity" messages in the past, so I thought I'd
>>>> just carry on.  Today's experience was not pretty and would it not for my experience
>>>> with this, I would have been very perplexed...
>>>
>>> There are two issues there, firstly the scripts/bitbake binary is doing
>>> a really bad job, secondly, one of the improved debugging patches I
>>> added to bitbake, regressed things in this case.
>>>
>>> I posted a patch to bitbake last night, I've just posted a fix for
>>> scripts/bitbake now. These two together should improve this. I agree
>>> that particular error would create a poor first impression, thanks for
>>> reporting it.
>>
>> With this patch, no 'git' and a fresh build I still get this:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 293, in <module>
>>       ret = main()
>>     File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 260, in main
>>       event = server.event_queue.get(block=False)
>>     File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 104, in get
>>       raise Empty
>> Empty
>> Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 293, in <module>
>>       ret = main()
>>     File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 260, in main
>>       event = server.event_queue.get(block=False)
>>     File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 104, in get
>>       raise Empty
>> Empty
>> ERROR:  OE-core's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
>>       Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
>>       Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:
>>
>>       Please install the following missing utilities: git
>>
>> Still not very pretty.
>
>
> Did you apply both patches, the one for bitbake and the one for OE-Core?
> This looks like the bitbake one is missing.

Sorry, I missed that since they went to different mailing lists.

The output is much cleaner with the other patch.

Thanks

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