2 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index a3e98d1b50..9ed736b0e1 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ python base_do_fetch() {
         fetcher = bb.fetch2.Fetch(src_uri, d)
         fetcher.download()
     except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException as e:
-        bb.fatal(str(e))
+        bb.fatal("Bitbake Fetcher Error: " + repr(e))
 }
 
 addtask unpack after do_fetch
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ python base_do_unpack() {
         fetcher = bb.fetch2.Fetch(src_uri, d)
         fetcher.unpack(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
     except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException as e:
-        bb.fatal(str(e))
+        bb.fatal("Bitbake Fetcher Error: " + repr(e))
 }
 
 def get_layers_branch_rev(d):
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbtests.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbtests.py
index dc423ec439..d4f6a08991 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbtests.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbtests.py
@@ -148,9 +148,6 @@ INHERIT_remove = \"report-error\"
         self.delete_recipeinc('man-db')
         self.assertEqual(result.status, 1, msg="Command succeded when it should have failed. bitbake output: %s" % result.output)
         self.assertIn('Fetcher failure: Unable to find file file://invalid anywhere. The paths that were searched were:', result.output)
-        line = self.getline(result, 'Fetcher failure for URL: \'file://invalid\'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.')
-        self.assertTrue(line and line.startswith("ERROR:"), msg = "\"invalid\" file \
-doesn't exist, yet fetcher didn't report any error. bitbake output: %s" % result.output)
 
     def test_rename_downloaded_file(self):
         # TODO unique dldir instead of using cleanall