invalid PPA sucessfully queued?

[Brian Murray]

I was looking at the amd64 log files, a favorite Friday afternoon activity, and noticed the following lines multiple times:

                         409s Purging configuration files for cloud-init (23.4.4-0ubuntu0~22.04.1) ...
                         410s dpkg: warning: while removing cloud-init, directory '/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d' not empty so not removed
                         410s Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.2112.0-2ubuntu2.2) ...
                         410s invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of try-restart.
                         410s Reading package lists...
                         411s Building dependency tree...
                         411s Reading state information...
                         411s linux-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0.100.97).
                         411s 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
                         411s ERROR: 'dviererbe:dotnet6-0-128-ppa2' is not a valid ppa format
                         422s autopkgtest [22:05:26]: ERROR: testbed failure: testbed setup commands failed with status 1

If this `is not a valid ppa format` how did it get queued? I don't have a scooby - probably because I haven't looked. As a first step we should grep the apache2 log files on the web servers to see what the actual request was.

Here's the entry from the json file:

 $ grep dotnet6 queues.json
        "dotnet6 {\"ppas\": [\"dviererbe/dotnet6-0-128-ppa2\"], \"requester\": \"dviererbe\", \"submit-time\": \"2024-03-15 20:54:19\", \"triggers\": [\"dotnet6/6.0.128-0ubuntu1~23.10.2~ppa1\
"], \"uuid\": \"4aee6b9c-d8ef-4c5a-80d2-dc0848fe90f6\"}",

Here's the queue entry which I yanked:

2024-03-15 22:21:37,071 - queue item: b'dotnet6 {"ppas": ["dviererbe/dotnet6-0-128-ppa2"], "requester": "dviererbe", "submit-time": "2024-03-15 20:54:19", "triggers": ["dotnet6/6.0.128-0ubuntu1~23.10.2~ppa1"], "uuid": "4aee6b9c-d8ef-4c5a-80d2-dc0848fe90f6"}' (deleting)

[Tim Andersson (andersson123)]

This bug should be fixed by this MP:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/462535

The ppa is valid, we're just retrieving the PPA in an invalid way, basically :)