Even with our best care, small problems sometimes slip in. This page keeps track of the known issues around using the Android source code.
Symptom: Trying to upload to Gerrit with repo upload results in an error SSH disabled
Cause: repo currently assumes that uploads to Gerrit happen over SSH, but the AOSP Gerrit only supports HTTPS. A fix is in the works.
Fix: Manually push the change to Gerrit with the following command. Note that this doesn't provide the same level of support as repo upload, e.g. it doesn't have any confirmation, doesn' thave any sanity-check about unsubmitted changes, and doesn't keep track of what has been uploaded and what hasn't.
$ repo forall . -c 'git push https://android-review.googlesource.com/p/$REPO_PROJECT HEAD:refs/for/master'
The following lists what would be uploaded, before doing the upload:
$ git log aosp/master..
Symptom: On some builds of IceCreamSandwich and later, the following warning is printed early during the build: /bin/bash: line 0: cd: cts/tools/cts-native-xml-generator/src/res: No such file or directory
Cause: Some makefile references that path, which doesn't exist.
Fix: None. This is a harmless warning.
Symptom: The emulator built directly from the gingerbread branch doesn't start and stays stuck on a black screen.
Cause: The gingerbread branch uses version R7 of the emulator, which doesn't have all the features necessary to run recent versions of gingerbread.
Fix: Use version R12 of the emulator, and a newer kernel that matches those tools. No need to do a clean build.
$ repo forall external/qemu -c git checkout aosp/tools_r12 $ make $ emulator -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel/kernel-qemu-armv7