[Bug 883390] Re: add-apt-repository crash when adding a ppa repository

[Robert Roth]

Do you still experience this problem? I have tried, and I receive signing_key_fingerprints for all of the above PPAs, thus the application does not crash. So maybe it was just a Launchpad-bug, which got fixed. Just ignoring that there is no signing_key_fingerprint information associated with the PPA to add is not the best thing, as later on apt-get update may fail because there's no GPG key.
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** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crash when adding a ppa repository

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  add-apt-repository crashes when I add my ppa repository:

  root at ubuntu:/home/cl# add-apt-repository ppa:etay-meiri/ppa
  You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
   Etay Meiri's PPA
   
   More info: https://launchpad.net/~etay-meiri/+archive/ppa
  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 552, in __bootstrap_inner
      self.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 78, in run
      self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 100, in add_ppa_signing_key
      "--recv", signing_key_fingerprint])
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 493, in call
      return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
      errread, errwrite)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1239, in _execute_child
      raise child_exception
  TypeError: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings

  Package infomation:
  python-software-properties version 0.81.10

  Release information:
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  How to reproduce: 
  execute the following:

  add-apt-repository ppa:etay-meiri/ppa

  Expected behavior: command should succeed.

  Thanks,

  Etay Meiri

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