Cannot get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle

Question

I tried to create a git repo with the instructions from "source.android.com/source/downloading.html#installing-repo"

but I get the following error when trying to initialize the repo in the working directory (using Ubuntu):

:~/workdir$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/a/platform/manifest
fatal: Cannot get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle
fatal: error [Errno -2] Name or service not known

I have created the ~/.netrc file with generated password and also set the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY variables.
When I try to access the above clone.bundle link through a browser, I get "not found" error.
Please let me know if some additional settings need to be done. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

i am a MAC user (Mojave). I have the same error.

When i launch:

repo init <repository url>

I get this error:

Downloading Repo source from https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
fatal: Cannot get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle
fatal: error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)
fatal: cloning the git-repo repository failed, will remove '.repo/repo'

The problem seems due to Python 3.6 on MacOS that comes with its own private copy of OpenSSL. That means the trust certificates in the system are no longer used as defaults by the Python ssl module. To fix that, you need to install a certifi package in your system.

i have solved with:

open /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command