From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1828E00348 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2012 11:39:33 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,268,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="230658372" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.13.227]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2012 11:39:33 -0800 Message-ID: <50C8DD74.2030301@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:39:32 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yocto Project X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Subject: Strange error with missing "meta-yocto" in bblayers X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:39:34 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When trying to build a machine I had not built in a while, I got the following error: $ bitbake core-image-minimal Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build NOTE: Your conf/bblayers.conf has been automatically updated. Please re-run bitbake . mkdir: cannot create directory `/../../var/pseudo': Permission denied /home/dvhart/source/poky/scripts/bitbake: line 178: /pseudo: No such file or direct ory It turns out I had "meta" and "meta-yocto-bsp" in bblayers, but not "meta-yocto". The error wasn't at all helpful, but I figured it had to be something in my configuration. Would there be someway to better articulate to the user what the failure actually was? -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel