add-apt-repository crashed with HTTPError in http_error_default(): HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[Robin Harper]

Experienced the issue after logging into 11.10 amd64 w/ LightDM, Ubuntu 2D. No user-initiated applications were run, only the initial system startup scripts, if any, post-login.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: python-software-properties 0.81.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 6 13:38:02 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/nvidia
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:xorg-edgers/nvidia']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: add-apt-repository crashed with HTTPError in http_error_default(): HTTP Error 404: Not Found
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (1 days ago)
UserGroups:

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #837226, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Robin Harper (harperrc)]

The problem was with the ppa:xorg-edgers/nvidia as it isn't a valid PPA URL