Given that performing any sort of floating-point operation seems to
clear the error condition, I tried simply added a "dummy = 1.0/2" line
to the get_ppa_info_from_lp() function immediately after the
curl.close() line (see attached patch)... and after that add-apt-
repository successfully processed
Actually, it looks like the problem is in pycurl, since calling .close()
seems to cause the very next floating point operation to return NaN.
(In the case of add-apt-repository, that floating point operation just
happens to be in the random() call invoked from inside the
tempfile.mkdtemp() function
The significant change between python-software-properties 0.82.7 and
0.82.7.3 is in the .3 release: "softwareproperties/ppa.py: download gpg
key to temporary keyring, and validate using v4 fingerprint before
importing to apt keyring." (Specifically, that change is the reason
that tempfile.mkdtemp
Confirm bug for trying to add ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager and
ppa:webupd8team/java, and #4's workaround working, on a machine running
12.04 with an AMD Athlon
ian@Athlon:~$ lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s):32-bit
Byte Order:Little Endian
CPU(s):
The workaround mentioned in #4 worked for me.
I've tried adding the same repository on two different PCs both running
12.04.2, but only the one with a AMD Sempron 2600+ CPU had the bug. The
other PC has a Core i3 CPU.
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What hardware are you seeing the problem on? I'm wondering if this might
be a CPU capability dependent bug because I don't get the error on a new
Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 32bit installation in a VM on a VMWare ESXi 4.1
host running on a PowerEdge R710 with dual Xeon L5520 CPUs. I do get the
problem wi
** Also affects: pkg-games-ppa (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: pkg-games-ppa (Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063350
Title:
add-apt
