I am running through the build example for the QS and  hit a failure when trying to access git://git.yoctoproject.org/libowl;protocol=git.  I started with the tarball here:  http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/nightly/CURRENT

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srifenbark@scottrif-desktop:~$ cd poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3
srifenbark@scottrif-desktop:~/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3$ source oe-init-build-env
You had no conf/local.conf file. This configuration file has therefore been
created for you with some default values. You may wish to edit it to use a
different MACHINE (target hardware) or enable parallel build options to take
advantage of multiple cores for example. See the file for more information as
common configuration options are commented.

The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about OE including a reference manual
which can be found at:
    http://yoctoproject.org/documentation

For more information about OpenEmbedded see their website:
    http://www.openembedded.org/

You had no conf/bblayers.conf file. The configuration file has been created for
you with some default values. To add additional metadata layers into your
configuration please add entries to this file.

The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about OE including a reference manual
which can be found at:
    http://yoctoproject.org/documentation

For more information about OpenEmbedded see their website:
    http://www.openembedded.org/



### Shell environment set up for builds. ###

You can now run 'bitbake <target>'

Common targets are:
    core-image-minimal
    core-image-sato
    meta-toolchain
    meta-toolchain-sdk
    adt-installer
    meta-ide-support

You can also run generated qemu images with a command like 'runqemu qemux86'

srifenbark@scottrif-desktop:~/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build$ bitbake -k core-image-sato
Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build
Parsing recipes: 100% |#########################################| Time: 00:00:48
Parsing of 825 .bb files complete (0 cached, 825 parsed). 1129 targets, 22 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.15.3"
TARGET_ARCH       = "i586"
TARGET_OS         = "linux"
MACHINE           = "qemux86"
DISTRO            = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.2+snapshot-20120927"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "m32 i586"
TARGET_FPU        = ""
meta             
meta-yocto       
meta-yocto-bsp    = "<unknown>:<unknown>"

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Preparing runqueue
NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 63 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
Loading cache: 100% |###########################################| ETA:  00:00:00
Loaded 1130 entries from dependency cache.

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.15.3"
TARGET_ARCH       = "i586"
TARGET_OS         = "linux"
MACHINE           = "qemux86"
DISTRO            = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.2+snapshot-20120927"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "m32 i586"
TARGET_FPU        = ""
meta             
meta-yocto       
meta-yocto-bsp    = "<unknown>:<unknown>"

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Preparing runqueue
NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
NOTE: validating kernel configuration

WARNING: The recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. Those files are:
   /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog
WARNING: The recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. Those files are:
   /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86/usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h
   /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so
   /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
   /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile
WARNING: Failed to fetch URL git://git.yoctoproject.org/libowl;protocol=git, attempting MIRRORS if available
ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 2, output:

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://git.yoctoproject.org/libowl;protocol=git'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/libowl-0.1+git1+6ebc8ac8f8575278dd40a535cadefa26374e44b1-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.1973
ERROR: Task 2306 (/home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 5560 tasks of which 339 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.

Summary: 1 task failed:
  /home/scottrif/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb, do_fetch
Summary: There were 3 WARNING messages shown.
Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
srifenbark@scottrif-desktop:~/poky-0b09e50810162a07ef0aecee91ee32b4a36334a3/build$

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