[oe] [Beagleboard] Can't fetch Linux kernel source

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Peter Chubb <peter.chubb at nicta.com.au> wrote:
> With a fresh checkout of  openembedded and all its layers, using
> oebb.sh, I see:
>  NOTE: package linux-3.0.12-r113b: task do_fetch: Started
>  ...
>  ...git fetch -f --prune
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git refs/*:refs/*
>  error: refs/tags/v2.6.38-rc7 does not point to a valid object!
>  error: refs/tags/v2.6.38-rc8 does not point to a valid object!
>  error: refs/tags/v2.6.38.1 does not point to a valid object!
>
>  NOTE: package linux-3.0.12-r113b: task do_fetch: Failed
> ERROR: Task 4 (/usr/src/Angstrom/sources/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux_3.0.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
>
> It sems to me that either the recipe for fetching from GIT is broken,
> or the upstream repos is broken, or git is broken. (I have git version
> 1.7.7.3 installed, from Debian).
>
> I can do:
>  git clone \
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
>
> and everything succeeds; git fsck on the resulting repository reports
> no errors.  What's more, the revision the recipe is looking for is
> present in the resulting repository.
>
> Therefore I suspect a bug in the git do_fetch() method.

Do those tags still exists upstream?

-M