[yocto] Failing to compile Yocto (acl package)

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Pedro Sanchez [mailto:psanchez at fosstel.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:41 AM
>
>On 12/27/2010 08:13 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>> From: Pedro Sanchez
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:10 AM
>>>
>>> On 12/27/2010 05:44 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 12/27/2010 03:21 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to compile Yocto from sources as described in the quick
>>>>> start documentation but the build fails as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ wget
>>>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
>>>>> $ tar xjf poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
>>>>> $ (edited conf/local.conf to select qemuarm)
>>>>> $ source poky-laverne-4.0/poky-init-build-env poky-4.0-build
>>>>> $ bitbake poky-image-minimal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ... (30 minutes of work)
>>>>>
>>>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_fetch: Succeeded
>>>>> NOTE: Running task 582 of 1621 (ID: 1261,
>>>>>
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb,
>>>>> do_unpack)
>>>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Started
>>>>> NOTE: Unpacking
>>>>> /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz to
>>>>>
>>>
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49
>>> -r0/
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR: Task failed:
>>>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Failed
>>>>> ERROR: Task 1261
>>>>>
>(/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb,
>>>>> do_unpack) failed with 1
>>>>> ERROR:
>>>>>
>'/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb'
>>>>> failed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried compiling the Laverne branch on a cloned Poky git repo. It
>>>>> also fails when processing the acl package. Any workarounds? Is there
>>>>> any log file I can look at for more details?
>>>>
>>>> You can find log files in the build directory with a relative
>>>> path like .../tmp/work/*/acl*/temp
>>>>
>>>> In particular, look at the log.do_unpack file for clues
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> This is what I see:
>>>
>>> $ cat armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49-r0/temp/log.do_unpack
>>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>>> tar: Child returned status 1
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>> NOTE: Unpacking
>>> /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz to
>>>
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49
>>> -r0/
>>> ERROR: Task failed:
>>>
>>> $ file poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz
>>> poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz: HTML document text
>>>
>>> The mirror where bb is configured to get acl from, mirror.cinquix.com,
>>> is down. I'll try to get it from the Savannah site.
>>>
>>
>> I've sent out the SRC_URI fixes to use correct Savannah site.
>>
>> BTW, if the mirror site is down, you should still get a correct tar ball from
>> pre-configured poky mirrors (pokylinux.org, ...). Please let's know if those
>> mirrors don't take effect to you.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kevin
>
>First of all thank for the quick fix! My laptop is busy building Yocto
>now as I write.
>
>As for the poky mirrors, they clearly didn't work for me. The bitbake
>command just stopped working when it failed to process the acl package.
>As far as I can say no attempts were made to reach any poky mirrors at
>all. Is there something we have to do to enable them before compiling
>the project?
>

the mirror is only reached if there's no response from original SRC_URI link.
In your case, the original link does work... which however provides a broken
tar ball. From poky p.o.v, the do_fetch task succeeds and thus no attempt
is made from those mirrors.

If you manually remove acl* from your DL_DIR, you should be able to 
observe the mirror effect since now the site is down and no response. 
Remember to remove previous download, or else poky will always first
grab from local DL_DIR instead of pulling from external. :-)

Thanks
Kevin