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software-properties package

  1. Bug #968756
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 968756

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pranith (bobby-prani) wrote : Re: apt-add-repository fails while adding ppa

This is a valid bug and needs to be fixed. A nice error message should be sufficient rather than printing a stack trace.

My error log:

pranith@labdesk:~/virtualbox/tmp/virtualbox-4.1.12-dfsg$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bobby-prani/virtualbox-precise
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:

 More info: https://launchpad.net/~bobby-prani/+archive/virtualbox-precise
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 99, in run
    self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 127, in add_ppa_signing_key
    if len(signing_key_fingerprint) < 160/8:
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()