Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[David Evans]

Dear Sirs,

I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure out 
who best to direct this question to.

When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get 
the following Warnings.

WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, 
attempting MIRRORS if available
WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS if 
available
WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, 
attempting MIRRORS if available

As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this is 
killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my under 
standing.

My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at 
http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am seeing 
the same do_fetch failures as those reported by Ed Nelson at 
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.

Any help will be much appreciated.


Regards,

David

Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-01-02 14:47, David Evans wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure out who best to direct this question to.
>
> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get the following Warnings.
>
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS if available
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
>
> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my under standing.
>
> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am seeing the same do_fetch failures as those
> reported by Ed Nelson at https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.

What version of Yocto (OE-core) do you have?  Those are pretty old
recipes and the corresponding tarballs seem to no longer be available.
If you update your repositories, you may get farther along.

n.b. when you run bitbake, you'll see a summary of what repositories
you are using.  Posting that would help a lot.

-- 
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MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Alex J Lennon]

On 02/01/2013 21:55, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-01-02 14:47, David Evans wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure out who best to direct this question to.
>>
>> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get the following Warnings.
>>
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
>>
>> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my under standing.
>>
>> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am seeing the same do_fetch failures as those
>> reported by Ed Nelson at https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated.
> 
> What version of Yocto (OE-core) do you have?  Those are pretty old
> recipes and the corresponding tarballs seem to no longer be available.
> If you update your repositories, you may get farther along.
> 
> n.b. when you run bitbake, you'll see a summary of what repositories
> you are using.  Posting that would help a lot.
> 

fwiw I followed these instructions over the Christmas period and they
worked well for me to build a working RPi image.

You do see warnings from time to time as the build tool fails to find a
primary source, but usually it falls back to a mirror (although it
doesn't seem to tell you that) and works.

Have you tried adding a few -vv 's to the bitbake command line to give
you some more information about what's going on?

Cheers,

Alex

Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Saul Wold]

On 01/02/2013 01:55 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-01-02 14:47, David Evans wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure
>> out who best to direct this question to.
>>
>> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get
>> the following Warnings.
>>
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
>> http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2,
>> attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
>> ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS
>> if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2,
>> attempting MIRRORS if available
>>
Notice that these are WARNINGS, bitbake is doing the right thing and 
falling back to the Yocto Project Mirrors where those older tarballs do 
exist.

>> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this
>> is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my
>> under standing.
>>
Is your build failing beyond this?  Are you able to create an image?  I 
recently built RPi, myself and it worked OK for me, both images.


If you have other failures please let us know.


>> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at
>> http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am
>> seeing the same do_fetch failures as those
>> reported by Ed Nelson at
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> What version of Yocto (OE-core) do you have?  Those are pretty old
> recipes and the corresponding tarballs seem to no longer be available.
> If you update your repositories, you may get farther along.
>
Both Openembedded and the Yocto Project keep mirrors of the older 
tarballs since as you say some upstreams remove older tarballs from 
their sites.


Sau!

> n.b. when you run bitbake, you'll see a summary of what repositories
> you are using.  Posting that would help a lot.
>

Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Jack Mitchell]

On 02/01/13 21:47, David Evans wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure 
> out who best to direct this question to.
>
> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get 
> the following Warnings.
>
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
> http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, 
> attempting MIRRORS if available
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
> ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS 
> if available
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, 
> attempting MIRRORS if available
>
> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this 
> is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my 
> under standing.
>
> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at 
> http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am 
> seeing the same do_fetch failures as those reported by Ed Nelson at 
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> yocto mailing list
> yocto@yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto

I will try to get round to updating this tutorial soon; as it has become 
a bit dated - however as Alex mentions it should still work fine albeit 
with a few warnings due to unavailable sources.

It should just be a matter of changing a few git revisions, and tweaking 
the wording a bit to involve the new meta-yocto, meta-yocto-bsp split. 
If anyone wishes to step up to the plate the source for this blog post 
is available at [1] and I will happily accept patches.

Cheers,
Jack.

[1] https://github.com/CommunistCode/PimpMyPi-Community-Blog-Posts

-- 

   Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
   http://www.embed.me.uk

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Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Alex J Lennon]

On 03/01/2013 10:48, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> On 02/01/13 21:47, David Evans wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure 
>> out who best to direct this question to.
>>
>> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get 
>> the following Warnings.
>>
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
>> http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, 
>> attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
>> ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS 
>> if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL 
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, 
>> attempting MIRRORS if available
>>
>> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this 
>> is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my 
>> under standing.
>>
>> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at 
>> http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am 
>> seeing the same do_fetch failures as those reported by Ed Nelson at 
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> yocto mailing list
>> yocto@yoctoproject.org
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
> 
> I will try to get round to updating this tutorial soon; as it has become 
> a bit dated - however as Alex mentions it should still work fine albeit 
> with a few warnings due to unavailable sources.
> 
> It should just be a matter of changing a few git revisions, and tweaking 
> the wording a bit to involve the new meta-yocto, meta-yocto-bsp split. 
> If anyone wishes to step up to the plate the source for this blog post 
> is available at [1] and I will happily accept patches.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jack.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/CommunistCode/PimpMyPi-Community-Blog-Posts
> 

Jack,

I found that post hugely helpful thanks, as I'd tried some months before
with the information at Distant Earth (http://www.distant-earth.com/wp/)
and for some reason I just wasn't able to produce an image that booted
on the RPi.

As you mention, I did find those git commits to be a little old and I
wasn't able to get an EFL UI build working from them.

As a result I migrated forward to the latest head commits at the time
and was able to get a build going (running EFL in fact)

I put some notes up here as I went along, which build upon the Pimp My
Pi blog post -

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/ciseco-eve/wiki/Getting_Started

I haven't yet updated those notes to reflect the newer Git commits I was
using but I've noted them down here -

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/ciseco-eve/wiki/Work_in_progress

Not sure if that helps, except that I can say it is building and working
from these much more recent commits...

(On a separate note I'd be interested in a chat with anybody who has any
ideas on performance of EFL and how it can be improved, e.g. improved
XServer support, hard fp perhaps, maybe EFL on DirectFB or similar?)

Cheers,

Alex

Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Alex J Lennon]

> It should just be a matter of changing a few git revisions, and tweaking 
> the wording a bit to involve the new meta-yocto, meta-yocto-bsp split. 
> If anyone wishes to step up to the plate the source for this blog post 
> is available at [1] and I will happily accept patches.
> 

Jack, I've taken up your invitation, forked the repo and committed a
change to my fork which updates the document to current meta-raspberrypi
commit and a recent (circa two weeks) Yocto commit.

I've just built this from scratch here and aside from a couple of GitHub
feed hiccups it works. It runs up on the RPi.

I've sent a pull request over to your base repo (or at least I think I
have...)

Cheers,

Alex

> Cheers,
> Jack.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/CommunistCode/PimpMyPi-Community-Blog-Posts
> 

Re: Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Jack Mitchell]

On 01/05/13 01:06, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>> It should just be a matter of changing a few git revisions, and tweaking
>> the wording a bit to involve the new meta-yocto, meta-yocto-bsp split.
>> If anyone wishes to step up to the plate the source for this blog post
>> is available at [1] and I will happily accept patches.
>>
> Jack, I've taken up your invitation, forked the repo and committed a
> change to my fork which updates the document to current meta-raspberrypi
> commit and a recent (circa two weeks) Yocto commit.
>
> I've just built this from scratch here and aside from a couple of GitHub
> feed hiccups it works. It runs up on the RPi.
>
> I've sent a pull request over to your base repo (or at least I think I
> have...)

Hi Alex,

Pulled, Merged and should be live on the site now.

Thanks for your contributions!

Regards,
Jack.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>> Cheers,
>> Jack.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/CommunistCode/PimpMyPi-Community-Blog-Posts
>>