Build Fail - You must agree to the Broadcom Foundation Agreement in order to download

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Platform

Issue/Introduction

Tanzu workload creation jobs may fail in CI/CD builds due to the error below. The impact of this is that all the builds are halted until the user accepts the EULA. 

 

simple    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Starting task 'Tanzu create workload' of type 'com.######.######.plugins.scripttask:task.builder.script'
command    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Beginning to execute external process for build 
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build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    version: v1.4.1
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    buildDate: 2024-08-14
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    sha: bbde4b21
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    arch: amd64
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    7[?25l8? You must agree to the Broadcom Foundation Agreement in order to download,
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    install, or use software from this registry via Tanzu CLI. Acceptance of the
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Broadcom Foundation Agreement covers all software installed via the Tanzu CLI
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    during any Session. "Session" means the period from acceptance until any of the
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    following occurs: (1) a change to Broadcom Foundation Agreement, (2) a new
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    major release of the Tanzu CLI is installed, (3) software is accessed in a
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    separate software distribution registry, or (4) re-acceptance of the Foundation
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Agreement is prompted by Broadcom.
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    To view the Broadcom Foundation Agreement, please see
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    https://www.broadcom.com/company/legal/licensing.
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    If you agree, the essential plugins (required by the Tanzu CLI) will be
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    automatically installed.
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Note: this prompt can be avoided by running "tanzu config eula accept".
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    Do you agree to the Broadcom Foundation Agreement?
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50      [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50    > Yes
build    13-Jan-2026 10:03:50      No
error    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Force Stop build feature is enabled for current plan. Either Bamboo has detected the build has hung or it has been manually stopped.
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Attempting to generate stack trace and terminate spawned sub-processes of process id: 1338357
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Found related process: pid: 2204401 ppid: 1338357 pgid: 214772 %cpu: 0.0 %mem: 0.0 cmd: /bin/bash
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Found related process: pid: 2204413 ppid: 2204401 pgid: 214772 %cpu: 0.0 %mem: 0.2 cmd: tanzu
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    getStackTraceAndKillRelatedProcesses for 2 processes
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Executing kill -3 2204413
simple    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    Executing kill -3 2204401
error    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    SIGQUIT: quit
error    13-Jan-2026 10:24:40    PC=0x408a2c m=0 sigcode=0

Cause

This is most likely showing up because it may have been a year since you last accepted the EULA, or the EULA has changed, and a different one was used since you last accepted it.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, the user will need to add/use 'tanzu config eula accept' in their pipeline.