I’ve run in to many different issues trying to build OpenEmbedded or recipes on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. The list kept getting longer, with fixes to some and workarounds to others. Just setup a new 8.04LTS (server) VM and all works clean, straight-out-of the box. Back to progress…and thanks to the Gumstix mailing list for not responding to my question, forcing me to give this a shot. ;)