[yocto] "fatal: A branch named 'meta-orig' already exists."

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>
>> On 2015-04-01 3:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 2015-03-31 6:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >     oh, what fresh hell is this?
>> > > >
>> > > > ... snip ...
>> > > > NOTE: Preparing RunQueue
>> > > > NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
>> > > > NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
>> > > > ERROR: Function failed: do_validate_branches (log file is located at
>> > > > /home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemux86/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.19.2+gitAUTOINC+9e70b482d3_31b35da6a5-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.17524)
>> > > > ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> > > > /home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemux86/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.19.2+gitAUTOINC+9e70b482d3_31b35da6a5-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.17524
>> > > > Log data follows:
>> > > > | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_validate_branches
>> > > > | NOTE: Setting branch meta to
>> > > > 9e70b482d3773abf92c9c5850e134cbca1d5651f
>> > > > | fatal: A branch named 'meta-orig' already exists.
>> > > >
>> > > >     this is building core-image-minimal for qemux86, and i'm assuming
>> > > > this is not fedora rawhide related.
>> > >
>> > > You've got a borked tree sitting in work-shared. If you clean-all
>> > > and start again, does it show up ?
>> > >
>> > > If it repeats, then it very well could be the version of git in
>> > > rawhide that is causing the issue.
>> >
>> >    i started with a fresh build, got a validate_branches error, and
>> > used "bb" to dump the log file for that step:
>>
>> There's definitely something wrong or a strange integration between
>> the version of git and that tree.
>>
>> Without a place to poke at this, there's not much I can say about
>> actually changing that behaviour.
>>
>> All my local builds are green, all the yocto release builds are green,
>> etc, so this is somehow specific to your build and location
>> environment.
>>
>> This is on a fully up to date master ?
>
> ... snip ...
>
>   yup. and i realize that fedora rawhide isn't supported here, but if
> there's something funky about fedora rawhide that's causing this, best
> to figure it out earlier than later. i'll try more testing later, but
> i've redone this test three times, same result each time.


I completely agree .. better to sort this out sooner rather than later, I'm just
trying to narrow down on a  configuration that allows me to see the problem
and poke at the smouldering pile. If git is doing something different now, it
won't be hard to fix, but hands on, versus code inspection, is the real
trick here.

Bruce

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