Comment 43 for bug 1063350

shall we all just throw this stuff out together........?

On 29 August 2013 17:32, Mark Dowd <email address hidden> wrote:

> As an update, downgrading python to the version that was suggested above
> worked and allowed me to install the repository.
>
> That desktop CPU is also quite old, probably almost 10 years by my
> estimation. It's only 1 GHz.
>
> For reference, I ran the grep on the virtual machine version that works
> and it has sse2 in the flags.
>
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> Title:
> curl corrupts floating point context
>
> Status in “pycurl” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> # add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
> You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
> Welcome to the Wine Team PPA. Here you can get the latest available
> Wine betas for every supported version of Ubuntu. This PPA is managed by
> Scott Ritchie and Maarten Lankhorst.
> More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+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 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 132, in add_ppa_signing_key
> tmp_keyring_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 322, in mkdtemp
> name = names.next()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 141, in next
> letters = [choose(c) for dummy in "123456"]
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 274, in choice
> return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))] # raises IndexError if
> seq is empty
> ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer
>
> I have tried a purge and install but it doesn't fix this.
>
> No idea how to work around this.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: python-software-properties 0.82.7.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Oct 7 18:43:46 2012
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: software-properties
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-10-03 (4 days ago)
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