[OE-core] Error: The image creation script fails

[Khem Raj]

ERROR: Error: The image creation script
'/home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/create_image.tar'
returned 1:
./

WARNING: /home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/create_image.tar:1
exit 1 from
  bzip2 -f -k core-image-minimal-qemux86-20140217182225.rootfs.tar

....

ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
/home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.20070
ERROR: Task 7 (/home/kraj/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb,
do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'


looking as log.do_rootfs


DEBUG: Shell function prelink_image finished
NOTE: Running image creation script for tar:
/home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/create_image.tar
...
NOTE: Running image creation script for ext3:
/home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/create_image.ext3
...
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2.7118e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
debugfs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
bzip2: Can't open input file
core-image-minimal-qemux86-20140217182225.rootfs.tar: No such file or
directory.
ERROR: Error: The image creation script
'/home/kraj/oe-core/build/tmp-uclibc/work/qemux86-oe-linux-uclibc/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/create_image.tar'
returned 1:


I am seeing this starting today with pure oecore

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.21.1"
BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-12.04"
TARGET_SYS        = "i586-oe-linux-uclibc"
MACHINE           = "qemux86"
DISTRO            = "nodistro"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "nodistro.0"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "m32 i586"
TARGET_FPU        = ""
meta              = "staging:e114cc405bd98ebbe5376e094842c9d49e7ca9b8"

staging has few patches on top but they were same working few days ago

any ideas ?