[Bug 816169] Re: When using Ensemble, add-apt-repository no longer functions properly

[Barry Warsaw]

This doesn't make much sense.  First, afaict the installed
encodings/__init__.py looks just fine.  A little ugly, but legal syntax.
Also, the md5sum of my installed version exactly matches upstream's
current Python 2.7 version, and I see nothing relevant in the upstream
tracker.

The Py_Initialize bit in the traceback is also odd.  Are there any
extension modules involved here?  This smells suspiciously like a
reference counting bug that is triggering a traceback in unrelated
Python code.  What third party (i.e. not part of Python) code is
involved here?

Any possibility you can boil the problem down to something small and
reproducible?

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Title:
  When using Ensemble, add-apt-repository no longer functions properly

Status in “ensemble” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  One of the changes made between Jul 22-25 caused add-apt-repository to
  quit working when being called from within an ensemble formula:

  + apt-add-repository ppa:cloudfoundry/ppa

  2011-07-25 22:55:32,383: hook.output at ERROR: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.py", line 123
      raise CodecRegistryError,\
                              ^

  2011-07-25 22:55:32,384: hook.output at ERROR: SyntaxError: invalid
  syntax

  Ensemble does not set many env vars, so this may be the culprit.

  When running this from within an Ensemble script on an Oneiric
  install, the error above is yielded, and while the file in
  sources.list.d is written, it uses sid for the distro rather than
  oneiric.

  If manually logging in and subsequently running the command,
  everything works as it should, which leads me to believe it is an env
  var issue.

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