[oe] problem building an image

[Michael Sundius]

I seem to be getting a build problem when I build an image. It does it
on any image, even the helloworld-image. anyone can help?

please see below the bitbake output as well as the logfile contents:

bitbake out:
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msundius at CUPLXSUNDISM01 build]$ bitbake helloworld-image
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: \ (6625/6625) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6339 cached, 0 parsed, 286 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
NOTE: build 200904291528: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.8.12"
METADATA_BRANCH   = "work"
METADATA_REVISION = "e8f9ef39737cdfb72d0906456e9890615a615471"
TARGET_ARCH       = "mips"
TARGET_OS         = "linux"
MACHINE           = "8kg6-ngp"
DISTRO            = "sciatl"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "1"
TARGET_FPU        = "soft"

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Preparing runqueue
NOTE: Executing runqueue
NOTE: Running task 533 of 535 (ID: 9,
/home/sundism/oe/openembedded/packages/images/helloworld-image.bb, do_rootfs)
NOTE: package helloworld-image-1.0: started
NOTE: package helloworld-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: started
ERROR: function do_rootfs failed
ERROR: see log in
/home/sundism/oe/out/work/8kg6-ngp-linux/helloworld-image-1.0-r0/temp/log.
do_rootfs.17498
NOTE: Task failed:
/home/sundism/oe/out/work/8kg6-ngp-linux/helloworld-image-1.0-r0/temp/log.
do_rootfs.17498
NOTE: package helloworld-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: failed
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
NOTE: package helloworld-image-1.0: failed
ERROR: Build of
/home/sundism/oe/openembedded/packages/images/helloworld-image.bb do_rootfs
 failed
ERROR: Task 9
(/home/sundism/oe/openembedded/packages/images/helloworld-image.bb, 
do_rootfs)failed
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 532 tasks of which 532 didn't need to be 
rerun and 1 failed.
ERROR: '/home/sundism/oe/openembedded/packages/images/helloworld-image.bb' 
failed
NOTE: build 200904291528: completed

logfile out:
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+ rm -rf /home/sundism/oe/out/rootfs
+ mkdir -p /home/sundism/oe/out/rootfs
+ mkdir -p /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/images
+ '[' 0 '!=' 1 ']'
+ for devtable in /home/sundism/oe/openembedded/files/device_table-minimal.
txt
+ makedevs -r /home/sundism/oe/out/rootfs -D

/home/sundism/oe/openembedded/files/device_table-minimal.txt
+ rootfs_ipk_do_rootfs
+ set -x
+ package_update_index_ipk
+ set -x
+ ipkgarchs='all any noarch mips  8kg6-ngp'
+ '[' '!' -z '' ']'
+ touch /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/Packages
+ ipkg-make-index -r /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/Packages -p

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/Packages -l

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/Packages.filelist -m 

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk

+ for arch in '$ipkgarchs'
+ '[' -e /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/ ']'
+ touch /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/Packages
+ ipkg-make-index -r /home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/Packages -p

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/Packages -l

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/Packages.filelist -m

/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/

Reading info for package
/home/sundism/oe/out/deploy/ipk/all/update-modules-dbg_1.0-r8_all.ipk 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sundism/oe/out/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/ipkg-make-index", 
line
114, in <module>
    pkg = ipkg.Package(filename)
  File "/home/sundism/oe/out/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/ipkg.py", line 161, 
in 
__init__
    tarStream = ar.open("control.tar.gz")
  File "/home/sundism/oe/out/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/arfile.py", line 59,
in open
    f = self._scan(fname)
  File "/home/sundism/oe/out/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/arfile.py", line 80,
in
_scan
    size = int(descriptor[5])
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '`'

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I printed out what descriptor[5] was and it was a "'"  

thanks  for your help
Mike