*** You would need to set GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME *** environment variables; otherwise you won't be able to perform *** certain operations because of "empty ident" errors. *** Alternatively, you can use user.name configuration variable. fatal: empty ident not allowed NOTE: Task failed: Fetch failed: Git: export PATH=/home/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/bin:/home/oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/bin:/home/oe/tmp/cross/bin:/home/oe/stuff/bitbake/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:.; git pull git://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git failed NOTE: package mtd-utils-native-1.0.0+git-r2: task do_fetch: failed ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting NOTE: package mtd-utils-native-1.0.0+git: failed ERROR: Build of /home/oe/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/mtd/mtd-utils-native_1.0.0+git.bb do_fetch failed ERROR: Task 82 (/home/oe/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/mtd/mtd-utils-native_1.0.0+git.bb, do_fetch) failed NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 439 tasks of which 222 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed. ERROR: '/home/oe/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/mtd/mtd-utils-native_1.0.0+git.bb' failed