imx-image-hovergames build failure

[bschuste]

Hi,

I followed the instructions from https://github.com/NXPmicro/meta-nxp-hovergames README file.

On ubuntu 18.04, running the command bitbake imx-image-hovergames ends with the following error:

ERROR: imx-boot-1.0-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Fetch command export PSEUDO_DISABLED=1; unset _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME; export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"; export SSH_AGENT_PID="1162"; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh"; export PATH="/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/sources/poky/scripts:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/aarch64-poky-linux:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/bin/crossscripts:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/sbin:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/sbin:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/bin:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/sources/poky/bitbake/bin:/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/hosttools"; export HOME="/home/brigitte"; git -c core.fsyncobjectfiles=0 remote failed with exit code 128, output:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

ERROR: imx-boot-1.0-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-mkimage.git;protocol=https;branch=imx_5.4.24_2.1.0'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/build/tmp/work/imx8mmnavq-poky-linux/imx-boot/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.13442
ERROR: Task (/home/brigitte/imx8/hovergames/sources/meta-imx/meta-bsp/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-boot_1.0.bb:do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'

What could possibly be wrong?

Thanks,

Brigitte

[iaingalloway]

Thanks for posting this issue and the solution!
Indeed the first time you use git it must be configured to have your username and email 

[bschuste · Accepted solution]

Defining these git parameters solved the problem:

git config --global user.email "<first.last@example.com>"
git config --global user.name "<First Last>"

Needed to clean the current state with command first:

bitbake -c cleanall imx-image-hovergames