Activity log for bug #1735218

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2017-11-29 17:00:28 Dmitrii Shcherbakov bug added bug
2017-11-29 17:06:33 Dmitrii Shcherbakov bug added subscriber Calvin Hartwell
2017-11-29 17:06:41 Dmitrii Shcherbakov bug added subscriber Alexander Litvinov
2018-04-06 10:29:52 Launchpad Janitor software-properties (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-04-06 10:33:49 Dmitrii Shcherbakov description This is common in an environment where a proxy server is not properly configured via HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY and you need to add a PPA. The error is very cryptic unless you look at the code: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonymous/very-important-packages Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~anonymous/ubuntu/very-important-packages'. ERROR: '~anonymous' user or team does not exist. Code path: https://git.launchpad.net/~usd-import-team/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/tree/softwareproperties/ppa.py?h=applied/ubuntu/xenial-updates#n305 def _get_suggested_ppa_message(user, ppa_name): try: msg = [] try: try: lp_user = get_info_from_lp(LAUNCHPAD_USER_API % user) except PPAException: return _("ERROR: '{user}' user or team does not exist.").format(user=user) # <--- this is triggered .... def get_info_from_lp(lp_url): if NEED_PYCURL: # python2 has no cert verification so we need pycurl return _get_https_content_pycurl(lp_url) else: # python3 has cert verification so we can use the buildin urllib return _get_https_content_py3(lp_url) ... def _get_https_content_pycurl(lp_url): # this is the fallback code for python2 try: callback = CurlCallback() curl = pycurl.Curl() curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1) curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2) curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, callback.body_callback) if LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT: curl.setopt(pycurl.CAINFO, LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT) curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, str(lp_url)) curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Accept: application/json"]) curl.perform() curl.close() json_data = callback.contents except pycurl.error as e: # <--- if this errors out due to connectivity raise PPAException("Error reading %s: %s" % (lp_url, e), e) return json.loads(json_data) This is common in an environment where a proxy server is not properly configured via HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY and you need to add a PPA. The error is very cryptic unless you look at the code: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonymous/very-important-packages Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~anonymous/ubuntu/very-important-packages'. ERROR: '~anonymous' user or team does not exist. Code path: https://git.launchpad.net/~usd-import-team/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/tree/softwareproperties/ppa.py?h=ubuntu/xenial-updates#n305 def _get_suggested_ppa_message(user, ppa_name):     try:         msg = []         try:             try:                 lp_user = get_info_from_lp(LAUNCHPAD_USER_API % user)             except PPAException:                 return _("ERROR: '{user}' user or team does not exist.").format(user=user) # <--- this is triggered .... def get_info_from_lp(lp_url):     if NEED_PYCURL:         # python2 has no cert verification so we need pycurl         return _get_https_content_pycurl(lp_url)     else:         # python3 has cert verification so we can use the buildin urllib         return _get_https_content_py3(lp_url) ... def _get_https_content_pycurl(lp_url):     # this is the fallback code for python2     try:         callback = CurlCallback()         curl = pycurl.Curl()         curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1)         curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2)         curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, callback.body_callback)         if LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT:             curl.setopt(pycurl.CAINFO, LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT)         curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, str(lp_url))         curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Accept: application/json"])         curl.perform()         curl.close()         json_data = callback.contents     except pycurl.error as e: # <--- if this errors out due to connectivity         raise PPAException("Error reading %s: %s" % (lp_url, e), e)     return json.loads(json_data)
2018-04-06 10:34:10 Dmitrii Shcherbakov bug added subscriber Ante Karamatić
2018-08-28 20:12:26 Vladimir Grevtsev bug added subscriber Vladimir Grevtsev