Cannot clone m4 submodule
SultanSGillani opened this issue · 4 comments
I see a couple of similar issues that are closed however this seems to be an issue again.
running the following shows errors:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrmShows the following error:
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xcb/util-common-m4.git' into submodule path '/home/sultan/i3-gaps-deb/xcb-util-xrm/m4' failed
Failed to clone 'm4'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/home/sultan/i3-gaps-deb/xcb-util-xrm/m4'...
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xcb/util-common-m4.git' into submodule path '/home/sultan/i3-gaps-deb/xcb-util-xrm/m4' failed
Failed to clone 'm4' a second time, aborting
Seems like m4 is not cloeable. Any workarounds? https doesnt work either.
Thanks.
Freedesktop's git servers are currently down (according to IRC, they are down for around 15 hours already). If you know some other URL for the git repository, you can follow steps like these to use that git repo instead: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42028437/how-to-change-git-submodules-url-locally/42035018
(I do not know any alternatively URL for a git repository, sorry.)
Thanks! After looking over your i3-gaps install instructions and installing with debian stretch/buster or ubuntu 19.04, i was able to install without needing to clone and compile xcb-util-xrm which helps my situation.
Thanks from my side as well! I'll close this now since its not our servers :-)
Should be fixed now