[Bug 1063350] Re: curl corrupts floating point context

rockhopper wheeltong at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 20:57:11 UTC 2013


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


On 29 August 2013 17:32, Mark Dowd <jiggyninja at gmail.com> 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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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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