Running the near-final Hob for v1.2 in the Build Appliance. There is a sanity check run by Hob to make sure there is network connectivity before starting to do any fetches. The error message pops up, but it's like the 8th line in a 9 line text box. I honestly thought that there was some bug which got triggered rather than my proxy being improperly set. These error messages must be changed to put the significant message FIRST so that users can easily see what's up.
This is not a problem for Hob. It is in sanity check in the bitbake server.
*** Bug 2337 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The real issue is that the dialog presented by Hob includes the full text from the sanity.bbclass bb.fatal() error message. Some or all of that text is not approprite for the hob. RP suggested that we could raise an exception and depending on hob or cmdline handle it with a dialog or bb.fatal() message
Unfortunately an exception is not going to help since it won't propagate outside of the event handler. A specific event type could work though.
Fix merged to master in revisions: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7a619c235f17a2e55b25d7e12984bfb61ec964fb http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=5a975239eabe1f1e5f03d3fb10fd7d31929f35aa
Fixed in denzil branch revisions 5b3a0eac61d39ae37c44eb644f2debf7d99596af and 78a5471a29fca1c61d1fbfe164e0ad3b34f5e8d2. Additionally one of Joshua's commits b30a243f3f9133b62a4003bc28374b0f931e6c41 needed to be added to avoid too much conflict resolution.