requestsync crashed with ValueError in validate_param_values()

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

I was requesting sync of latest nemiver with "requestsync -s nemiver karmic"

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 25 21:01:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/requestsync
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.75
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/requestsync -s nemiver karmic
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/requestsync', '-s', 'nemiver', 'karmic']
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Title: requestsync crashed with ValueError in validate_param_values()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm lpadmin plugdev video

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Same here.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

This seems to be a bug in the new python-wadllib package.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Notes from IRC:

19:27 < leonardr> kees, sure. the bug is caused by wadllib being smart about escaping strings, and launchpadlib/lazr.restfulclient not being smart about what it tells wadllib to escape
19:27 < leonardr> upgrade wadllib without making launchpadlib smart, and you'll get this error
19:28 < leonardr> use the launchpadlib and lazr.restfulclient currently in trunk, and the problem should be solved

[James Westby (james-w)]

Should be fixed with the launchpadlib upload of 5 minutes ago and
lazr.restfulclient getting out of NEW.

Thanks,

James

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Note that the new python-launchpadlib does not build because of the python-oauth build dependency, which is in universe and debated. This also completely breaks the apport retracers unfortunately.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Un-fixing, as launchpadlib is dep-wait on python-oauth, as it's MIR is
not approved, see bug 408878.

Thanks,

James

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is there a workaround? This is pretty urgent for me, since it causes crash reports to become totally useless after very few days.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, I just put the new p-launchpadlib into my retracer PPA (https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/apport-retracer) and have the retracers use that, so it's fine for the retracers for now. With current karmic and p-launchpadlib 1.5.1 apport's launchpad backend test suite succeeds again.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Thu Aug 27 08:39:40 UTC 2009 Martin Pitt wrote:
> Is there a workaround? This is pretty urgent for me, since it causes
> crash reports to become totally useless after very few days.

I'm not sure if there is a code workaround. We could downgrade python-waddlib
until the oauth issue is done.

Thanks,

James

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is pretty urgent for the security team as well. It breaks nearly all of our scripts (including our publication scripts). An effective workaround is installing python-wadllib_0.1~bzr7-0ubuntu4_all.deb from jaunty.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

python-launchpadlib (1.5.1-0ubuntu1) is available in Karmic and seems to resolve the issue quite fine.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Nope, still seeing the issue. Also tried a ppa with backported launchpadlib and still see it:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~tsimpson/+archive/launchpadlib

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Well I'm using lucid with 1.5.5-1 and it works fine. Which command fails for you exactly?

python-launchpadlib (1.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * debian/control:
    - Tighten python-lazr.restfulclient dependency to be >= 0.9.11.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:49:35 +0100

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

here's the backtrace:

 ERROR: Failed to update bug 493645
New status was: Confirmed
0 bugs updated
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/bryce/src/Arsenal/arsenal/contrib/process-incomplete-bugs.py", line 88, in <module>
    bugtask.transitionToStatus(status = new_status)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/launchpadlib-1.0.1-py2.6.egg/launchpadlib/resource.py", line 344, in __call__
    **args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wadllib/application.py", line 591, in build_representation
    media_type, param_values, **kw_param_values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wadllib/application.py", line 690, in representation
    return definition.bind(param_values, **kw_param_values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wadllib/application.py", line 801, in bind
    params, param_values, **kw_param_values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wadllib/application.py", line 169, in validate_param_values
    param_values[name], name, '", "'.join(options)))
ValueError: Invalid value '"Confirmed"' for parameter 'status': valid values are: "New", "Incomplete", "Invalid", "Won't Fix", "Confirmed", "Triaged", "In Progress", "Fix Committed", "Fix Released", "Unknown"

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi Bryce,

You appear to be using

  "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/launchpadlib-1.0.1-py2.6.egg/launchpadlib/resource.py"

remove your /usr/local install and all should work fine again.

Thanks,

James