[oe] bitbake dies with an python exception | AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 10:53:15 Paul Barker wrote:
> On 4 July 2013 10:17, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 July 2013 10:18:32 Cestonaro Thilo wrote:
> >> hey,
> >> 
> >> found it. The Var "FAKEROOTCMD" wasn't set so bitbake died as executing
> >> "None" doesn't work.
> >> 
> >> Added
> >> FAKEROOTCMD="fakeroot"
> >> to my local.conf and it worked.
> >> 
> >> But anyway, shouldn't this be the default?!
> > 
> > FAKEROOTCMD is set in meta/conf/bitbake.conf, so this is indeed
> > unexpected.
> > BTW, "fakeroot" is not correct - it needs to point to pseudo (and that is
> > the default if you have a look at meta/conf/bitbake.conf).
> 
> I stumbled onto this sort of error when I cloned poky at master but
> copied my bblayers.conf from a previous build and didn't update the
> paths to point to the correct places for the layers. So I was running
> latest bitbake with latest poky 'scripts' directory on the path,
> against an old version of the 'dylan' branch of poky.
> 
> What versions of openembedded/poky/bitbake are you using? If they're
> fetched from git I'd recommend updating everything and trying again.
> It could just be a mismatch between the bitbake version and the
> metadata versions.

If this issue is reproducible I'd really appreciate some help in doing so; we 
shouldn't be showing tracebacks if we can show a meaningful error.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre