Re: Poor first impression

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 12:13 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-05-21 03:10, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 07:26 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> I just tried to run Poky/Yocto on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 system.  I knew there would
> >> be missing bits and have seen the "sanity" messages in the past, so I thought I'd
> >> just carry on.  Today's experience was not pretty and would it not for my experience
> >> with this, I would have been very perplexed...
> >
> > There are two issues there, firstly the scripts/bitbake binary is doing
> > a really bad job, secondly, one of the improved debugging patches I
> > added to bitbake, regressed things in this case.
> >
> > I posted a patch to bitbake last night, I've just posted a fix for
> > scripts/bitbake now. These two together should improve this. I agree
> > that particular error would create a poor first impression, thanks for
> > reporting it.
> 
> With this patch, no 'git' and a fresh build I still get this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 293, in <module>
>      ret = main()
>    File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 260, in main
>      event = server.event_queue.get(block=False)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 104, in get
>      raise Empty
> Empty
> Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 293, in <module>
>      ret = main()
>    File "/home/local/poky-multi/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 260, in main
>      event = server.event_queue.get(block=False)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 104, in get
>      raise Empty
> Empty
> ERROR:  OE-core's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
>      Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
>      Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:
> 
>      Please install the following missing utilities: git
> 
> Still not very pretty.


Did you apply both patches, the one for bitbake and the one for OE-Core?
This looks like the bitbake one is missing.

Cheers,

Richard