I'm getting this error as well when I try and build the console image:
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: \ (6338/6338) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6058 cached, 2 parsed, 278 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: build 200812201535: started
OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION = "1.8.11"
METADATA_BRANCH = "
org.openembedded.dev"
METADATA_REVISION = "2fe38e26dd4dc4b0cea235057a28b1af3b290181"
TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
TARGET_OS = "linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE = "beagleboard"
DISTRO = "angstrom"
DISTRO_VERSION = "2008.1-test-20081220"
TARGET_FPU = "hard"
NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: preferred version git of u-boot not available (for item u-boot)
NOTE: multiple providers are available for task-base-extended (task-
base (copy), task-base);
NOTE: consider defining PREFERRED_PROVIDER_task-base-extended
NOTE: preferred version git of u-boot not available (for item u-boot)
ERROR: '['/home/garren/oe/openembedded/packages/tasks/task-base
(copy).bb']' RDEPENDS/RRECOMMENDS or otherwise requires the runtime
entity '#' but it wasn't found in any PACKAGE or RPROVIDES variables
NOTE: Runtime target '#' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['#']
NOTE: Preparing runqueue
NOTE: Executing runqueue
NOTE: Running task 1262 of 2211 (ID: 279, /home/garren/oe/openembedded/
packages/angstrom/
angstrom-version.bb, do_setscene)
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: started
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_setscene: started
NOTE: Checking if staging package installed
NOTE: No. Manually removing any installed files
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_setscene: completed
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: completed
NOTE: Running task 1263 of 2211 (ID: 280, /home/garren/oe/openembedded/
packages/angstrom/
angstrom-version.bb, do_fetch)
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: started
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_fetch: started
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_fetch: completed
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: completed
NOTE: Running task 1264 of 2211 (ID: 281, /home/garren/oe/openembedded/
packages/angstrom/
angstrom-version.bb, do_unpack)
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: started
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_unpack: started
NOTE: Unpacking /home/garren/oe/openembedded/packages/angstrom/
angstrom-version.bb to /home/garren/oe/tmp/work/beagleboard-angstrom-
linux-gnueabi/angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2/
NOTE: package angstrom-version-1_2008.1-test-20081220-r2: task
do_unpack: completed
NOTE: package angstrom-version-2008.1-test-20081220: completed
NOTE: Running task 1320 of 2211 (ID: 109, /home/garren/oe/openembedded/
packages/u-boot/
u-boot_git.bb, do_setscene)
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea: started
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea-r21: task
do_setscene: started
NOTE: Checking if staging package installed
NOTE: No. Manually removing any installed files
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea-r21: task
do_setscene: completed
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea: completed
NOTE: Running task 1321 of 2211 (ID: 110, /home/garren/oe/openembedded/
packages/u-boot/
u-boot_git.bb, do_fetch)
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea: started
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea-r21: task
do_fetch: started
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref omap3
NOTE: Task failed: Fetch failed: Fetch command export PATH=/home/
garren/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/beagleboard-angstrom-linux-
gnueabi:/home/garren/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-angstrom-
linux-gnueabi:/home/garren/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/sbin:/home/
garren/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin:/home/garren/oe/tmp/cross/
armv7a/bin:/home/garren/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/sbin:/home/garren/oe/
tmp/staging/i686-linux/bin:/home/garren/oe/opt/bitbake/bin:/usr/local/
sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games; git
fetch git://
www.sakoman.net/git/u-boot-omap3.git omap3 failed with
signal 128, output:
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref omap3
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea-r21: task
do_fetch: failed
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
NOTE: package u-
boot-2008.10+gitr1e329ec630b31803ee191d2ee335214662b5bfea: failed
ERROR: Build of /home/garren/oe/openembedded/packages/u-boot/u-
boot_git.bb do_fetch failed
ERROR: Task 110 (/home/garren/oe/openembedded/packages/u-boot/u-
boot_git.bb, do_fetch) failed
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1320 tasks of which 1316 didn't need to
be rerun and 1 failed.
ERROR: '/home/garren/oe/openembedded/packages/u-boot/
u-boot_git.bb'
failed
NOTE: build 200812201535: completed
I'm not behind a firewall and I can clone the location fine. Any help
would be greatly appreciated