gclient sync stops on third_party/binutils/download.py returned non-zero exit status 1

[Yogesh Seralia]

Hello All,

I am trying fresh checkout of chromium code on Ubuntu 14.04 with x64 arch. and getting stuck on :

________ running '/usr/bin/python src/third_party/binutils/download.py' in '/media/vcareall/C01E000F1E000160/Yogesh/chromium'
Downloading /media/vcareall/C01E000F1E000160/Yogesh/chromium/src/third_party/binutils/Linux_x64/binutils.tar.bz2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "src/third_party/binutils/download.py", line 130, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "src/third_party/binutils/download.py", line 117, in main
    return FetchAndExtract(arch)
  File "src/third_party/binutils/download.py", line 82, in FetchAndExtract
    '-s', sha1file])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 535, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Error: Command '/usr/bin/python src/third_party/binutils/download.py' returned non-zero exit status 1 in /media/vcareall/C01E000F1E000160/Yogesh/chromium


What could be the reason and how can be solved, please suggest me on this.

Thanks

Yogesh Seralia

[Yogesh Seralia]

In additoin to the post of chromiumuser631 have asked.
I have PATH set and started gclient with sudo also.

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

Do not run gclient with sudo. No part of the process should be run as root.

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[Lutz]

Just had the same issue. I had

  export PATH="$PATH:~/depot_tools"

in my .bashrc, which worked fine in bash, but for some reason caused this error in download.py. After I changed it to 

  export PATH="$PATH:${HOME}/depot_tools"

it worked.

[Rajesh Mahalingam]

This helped to complete the "gclient sync"

[castle19...@gmail.com]

I got this error because uses of anaconda python2.7, when i change to system python2.7, it worked.