nrf sdk installation exited with status 128

[Martin Andersson]

Hi,

Anyone encountered this issue when installing the nrf sdk (cmd in admin):

--- Cloning manifest repository from github.com/.../fw-nrfconnect-nrf, rev. master
fatal: cannot mkdir c:\users\maan01\desktop\xxx\src\ncs\.west\manifest-tmp: No such file or directory
ERROR: command exited with status 128: git init 'c:\users\maan01\desktop\xxx\src\ncs\.west\manifest-tmp'

Br.Martin

[Heidi]

Hi!

Could you try deleting the ncs directory and trying again with a location much closer to the C Drive (for example C: \users\ncs)

I suspect there might be an issue with the file path being too long.

Best regards,

Heidi

[Martin Andersson]

Hi Heidi,

I do not think that makes any difference:

I have tried to do:

mkdir c:\nrf9160\src\ncs\.west\manifest-tmp

But hen I get some other errors instead...

Br.M

[Heidi]

Yeah, I don't think that will work. Could you tell me what the ncs\.west\config file contains - if it exists at all?

[Martin Andersson]

the ncs folder is empty

[Heidi]

Okay. Could you take a look at this ticket and try the fix suggested there? It looks west is using an older version of git. Try changing your system path to use the newer version of git.

[Martin Andersson]

Hi Heidi,

That solved it. I read that post earlier and thought I used the latest (without checking), but I had cygwin installed also... case closed.

Br.Martin