I had that error too. I solved by doing the : Repo uses Git . Make sure you have it installed and your user name and e-mail address configured. Below is an example for Debian-based systems:
$ sudo apt install git
$ git config --global user.name “John Doe”
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
After I configured my user name and e-mail, I was able to sync again.
For good measure I would remove the /oe-core and the bin directories. Start from scratch
To save some hassle chmod -R 777 oe-core. before removing. that way it won’t complain that files a read only.
$ repo init -u https://git.toradex.com/toradex-manifest.git -b dunfell-5.x.y -m tdxref/default.xml
Downloading Repo source from https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
... A new version of repo (2.17) is available.
... You should upgrade soon:
cp /home/user/apagar-oe-core-test/.repo/repo/repo /home/user/bin/repo
Downloading manifest from https://git.toradex.com/toradex-manifest.git
Your identity is: my-user-here <my-user-here@my-email.com>
If you want to change this, please re-run 'repo init' with --config-name
repo has been initialized in /home/user/apagar-oe-core-test
$ ls -la
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 jan 4 10:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 115 user user 12288 jan 4 10:14 ..
drwxrwxr-x 5 user user 4096 jan 4 10:13 .repo
$ repo sync
... A new version of repo (2.17) is available.
... You should upgrade soon:
cp /home/user/apagar-oe-core-test/.repo/repo/repo /home/user/bin/repo
Fetching: 38% (5/13) meta-openembedded.git
Fetching: 100% (13/13), done in 6m11.371s
Garbage collecting: 100% (13/13), done in 0.056s
Checking out: 100% (13/13), done in 0.511s
repo sync has finished successfully.
$ ls -la
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 4 user user 4096 jan 4 10:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 115 user user 12288 jan 4 10:24 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 user user 1304 jan 4 10:20 export
drwxrwxr-x 14 user user 4096 jan 4 10:20 layers
drwxrwxr-x 7 user user 4096 jan 4 10:20 .repo
