[OE-core] Unknown host error while building abiword

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 11:37 +0530, Hardik Padhariya wrote:
> We are using Yocto krogoth 2.1.1 for imx6ul evaluation kit
> "mx6ul_14x14_evk".

krogoth is quite elderly now and hadn't had security updates for a
while.
 
> While building the abiword tool using “bitbake abiword” command we
> are facing the following issue.
>  
> “
> ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128,
> output:
> fatal: unable to connect to git.gnome.org:
> git.gnome.org[0: 209.132.180.168]: errno=No route to host
> git.gnome.org[1: 209.132.180.180]: errno=No route to host
>  

gnome migrated their git services to git lab so the urls changed. You
should ideally update to a newer release of yocto. Failing that,
configure a source mirror which has the needed sources from several
years ago.

Cheers,

Richard