[Bug 983741] Re: add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON object could be decoded

[Robert Roth]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.


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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON
  object could be decoded

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

Bug description:
  As you can see in the details, I was missing the trailing 'a' in PPA
  here, it had been cut off during copy + paste. So the repository
  location was incorrect, but the application should probably not crash
  so hard.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: python-software-properties 0.81.13.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-18.31-generic 3.0.26
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 15 02:11:21 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apt-add-repository ppa:speed-dreams/pp
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apt-add-repository', 'ppa:speed-dreams/pp']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON object could be decoded
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (179 days ago)
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