From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Barker <paul@paulbarker.me.uk>
Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: bitbake dies with an python exception | AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:48:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1721069.SICaQ1bLDa@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANyK_8eOaDbVANrOUuRAzhguRSBjv_puQdjjL+NbfVvv79pU7Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 04 July 2013 10:53:15 Paul Barker wrote:
> On 4 July 2013 10:17, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@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
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-04 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-03 13:21 bitbake dies with an python exception | AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind' Cestonaro Thilo
2013-07-04 8:18 ` Cestonaro Thilo
2013-07-04 9:17 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-07-04 9:53 ` Paul Barker
2013-07-04 10:48 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2013-07-04 10:55 ` Paul Barker
2013-07-05 12:35 ` Cestonaro Thilo
2013-07-28 14:09 ` Paul Barker
2013-07-28 16:46 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-07-29 7:47 ` Paul Barker
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