speedtest-cli crashes

[Dr Anirban Mitra]

on trying to run speedtest-cli I get following output

artim@ARTIMPOLY:~$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'speedtest-cli')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1832, in main
    shell()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1729, in shell
    secure=args.secure
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1009, in __init__
    self.get_config()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1081, in get_config
    map(int, server_config['ignoreids'].split(','))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

artim@ARTIMPOLY:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04

artim@ARTIMPOLY:~$ apt-cache policy speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli:
  Installed: 2.0.0-1
  Candidate: 2.0.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0-1 500
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 What you expected to happen - get network speed

 What happened instead - I got aforementioned output

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: speedtest-cli 2.0.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-80.90~18.04.1-generic 5.4.124
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Aug 1 14:22:06 2021
Dependencies:
 python-pkg-resources 39.0.1-2
 python3-pkg-resources 39.0.1-2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-03 (575 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: speedtest-cli
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1923352, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.