This issue happens on latest master branch: Tree/branch: poky/master Commit: 3051f3644496ab570f3c6fb8f5def9d5843b1508 When I built the puzzles I got the following errors: ################# $ bitbake puzzles Loading cache: 100% |####################################################################################################################################################| ETA: 00:00:00 Loaded 1130 entries from dependency cache. Build Configuration: BB_VERSION = "1.15.2" TARGET_ARCH = "i586" TARGET_OS = "linux" MACHINE = "qemux86" DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_VERSION = "1.2+snapshot-20120705" TUNE_FEATURES = "m32 i586" TARGET_FPU = "" meta meta-yocto = "master:3051f3644496ab570f3c6fb8f5def9d5843b1508" NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies NOTE: Preparing runqueue NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Running task 1213 of 1720 (ID: 4, /buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9561.bb, do_fetch) NOTE: package puzzles-r9561-r0: task do_fetch: Started WARNING: Checksum error encountered with download (will attempt other sources): Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz'. Checksum mismatch! File: '/buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/build-qemumips/downloads/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz' has md5 checksum e52534699a71b32d43d94908d3d3abc6 when c86695aebfc95efe1d6241863849101b was expected File: '/buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/build-qemumips/downloads/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz' has sha256 checksum 82b8c48a7bba041704b1fc0848e07557d4cdf6f293bb246eea7f1135211c927c when 2c20a45189387e3de8804a58bdb4e47ac4bb0f890001a509dfbdc015b5a84b95 was expected ERROR: Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz'. Checksum mismatch! File: '/buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/build-qemumips/downloads/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz' has md5 checksum e52534699a71b32d43d94908d3d3abc6 when c86695aebfc95efe1d6241863849101b was expected File: '/buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/build-qemumips/downloads/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz' has sha256 checksum 82b8c48a7bba041704b1fc0848e07557d4cdf6f293bb246eea7f1135211c927c when 2c20a45189387e3de8804a58bdb4e47ac4bb0f890001a509dfbdc015b5a84b95 was expected ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r9561.tar.gz'. Unable to fetch URL from any source. ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/build-qemumips/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/puzzles-r9561-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.17226 NOTE: package puzzles-r9561-r0: task do_fetch: Failed ERROR: Task 4 (/buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9561.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1' NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1213 tasks of which 1212 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed. Summary: 1 task failed: /buildarea2/yzhao/poky-build/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9561.bb, do_fetch Summary: There was 1 WARNING message shown. Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code. ######################
upstream seems to be changing tar frequently so switch to fetching it from svn works all the time. I have a patch for it here http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/eglibc-2.16
fixed by OE-Core rev: add617cbeac9fcf4621cca45a0800c5ab6239c5a
Verified with latest master branch: 62d42fe3cfa575cb97b484ccf7b2e9a25cc50770 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=ceb0f25ac1fe1e4bdcf3d01845a6b9d0c8d58e72