[Qemu-devel] [Build bug] Problem checking out submodules

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

Hello:

In the daily qemu.git autotest run, I started to see the following 
problem while checking out the qemu.git tree and checking out the 
submodules:

> $ git submodule update
> Submodule path 'dtc': checked out 'bc895d6d09695d05ceb8b52486ffe861d6cfbdde'
> Submodule path 'pixman': checked out '97336fad32acf802003855cd8bd6477fa49a12e3'
> Submodule path 'roms/SLOF': checked out 
> '8cfdfc43f4c4c8c8dfa4b7cf16f7c19c84eee812'
> Submodule path 'roms/ipxe': checked out 
> '09c5109b8585178172c7608de8d52e9d9af0b680'
> Submodule path 'roms/openbios': checked out 
> '0f3d51ef22ec9166beb3ed434d253029ed7cfe84'
> Submodule path 'roms/qemu-palcode': checked out 
> 'c87a92639b28ac42bc8f6c67443543b405dc479b'
> Cloning into 'roms/seabios'...
> remote: Counting objects: 9706, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2392/2392), done.
> remote: Total 9706 (delta 7753), reused 9244 (delta 7308)
> Receiving objects: 100% (9706/9706), 2.26 MiB | 220.00 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (7753/7753), done.
> fatal: reference is not a tree: ece025f5980bae88fa677bc9c0d24d2e580e205d
> Cloning into 'roms/sgabios'...
> remote: Counting objects: 24, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.
> remote: Total 24 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Receiving objects: 100% (24/24), 44.33 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (8/8), done.
> Submodule path 'roms/sgabios': checked out 
> '23d474943dcd55d0550a3d20b3d30e9040a4f15b'
> Cloning into 'roms/vgabios'...
> remote: Counting objects: 1281, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (381/381), done.
> remote: Total 1281 (delta 898), reused 1281 (delta 898)
> Receiving objects: 100% (1281/1281), 762.30 KiB | 172.00 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (898/898), done.
> Submodule path 'roms/vgabios': checked out 
> '19ea12c230ded95928ecaef0db47a82231c2e485'
> Unable to checkout 'ece025f5980bae88fa677bc9c0d24d2e580e205d' in submodule path 
> 'roms/seabios'

Top commit:

> commit a684f3cf9b9b9c3cb82be87aafc463de8974610c
> Merge: 349cd52 1cf9412
> Author: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Sep 30 17:15:27 2013 -0500
>
>     Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/seabios-1.7.3.2' into staging
>
>     # By Gerd Hoffmann
>     # Via Gerd Hoffmann
>     * kraxel/seabios-1.7.3.2:
>       update seabios from 1.7.2.2 to 1.7.3.2
>
>     Message-id: address@hidden


Can someone please take a look at fixing this? Thanks!

Lucas