Here is the output:

skrtbhtngr@ubuntu:~/libvirt$ ./autogen.sh --system

Updating submodules...
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path '.gnulib'
Submodule 'keycodemapdb' (https://gitlab.com/keycodemap/keycodemapdb.git) registered for path 'src/keycodemapdb'
Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib'...
fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
git.sv.gnu.org[0: 208.118.235.201]: errno=Connection timed out

fatal: clone of 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' into submodule path '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib' failed
Failed to clone '.gnulib'. Retry scheduled
Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/src/keycodemapdb'...
Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib'...
fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
git.sv.gnu.org[0: 208.118.235.201]: errno=Connection timed out

fatal: clone of 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' into submodule path '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib' failed
Failed to clone '.gnulib' a second time, aborting
error: Updating submodules failed

I have tried changing the gir URL 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' to 'git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git', but even that doesn't work.

Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 02:09:30AM +0530, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Sukrit, currently pursuing Masters in Computer Science and Engineering
> from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
>
> I am interested in applying for a few projects listed on the ideas page.
>
> But, I am not able to connect to IRC channel (missing key problem). Also, I
> am not able to run `autogen.sh` successfully from the git repo clone as
> there is some error related to gnulib git repo's URL.

Hi,
so what does the error say?

Erik