Error with add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

[German Acevedo]

Hi,

I'm doing a fresh installation of BBB, following the instructions of http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html, but when I get to "Step 2. Install PPA for LibreOffice 4.4 and libsslAnchor link for: install ppa for libreoffice 44 and libssl" and execute the "

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

" command, it gives the following error:

root@conferencias:~# sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp0imvvdj7/secring.gpg' created

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp0imvvdj7/pubring.gpg' created

gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com

gpg: /tmp/tmp0imvvdj7/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created

gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ond\xc5\x99ej Sur▒" imported

gpg: Total number processed: 1

gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Exception in thread Thread-1:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 920, in _bootstrap_inner

    self.run()

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 868, in run

    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 687, in addkey_func

    func(**kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 370, in add_key

    return apsk.add_ppa_signing_key()

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 261, in add_ppa_signing_key

    tmp_export_keyring, signing_key_fingerprint, tmp_keyring_dir):

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 210, in _verify_fingerprint

    got_fingerprints = self._get_fingerprints(keyring, keyring_dir)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 202, in _get_fingerprints

    output = subprocess.check_output(cmd, universal_newlines=True)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 609, in check_output

    output, unused_err = process.communicate(inputdata, timeout=timeout)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 947, in communicate

    stdout = _eintr_retry_call(self.stdout.read)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 491, in _eintr_retry_call

    return func(*args)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode

    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 92: ordinal not in range(128)

If I continue the installation it finishes without any errors, but makes it impossible to connect WebRTC audio.

Before this command there is no other error.

I started with a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.2 64 bits that after dist-ugrade is now Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

Any suggestion about how to solve this?

Regards,

German

[Fred Dixon]

Hi German,

Interesting.  We googled the error

  add-apt-repository UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in

and got this explanation

   http://askubuntu.com/questions/393638/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0x-in-position-ordinal-n

which suggests your server has no enabled utf-8 locales. Can you check that your server mets the setup in

   http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#before-you-install

specifically, having the locale set to en_US.UTF-8.  (It might work for other locales, but this is what we test agains).

When we tried the command on a server that didn't have the locale setup, we received the same errors.  When we did have the locale setup, as per the docs, 

$ cat /etc/default/locale

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

the adding of the repo worked

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmrtxugj2/secring.gpg' created

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmrtxugj2/pubring.gpg' created

gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com

gpg: /tmp/tmpmrtxugj2/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created

gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported

gpg: Total number processed: 1

gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

OK

$

Regards,... Fred

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[German Acevedo]

Hi Fred,

This is the result, as I can see my default is set to en_US.UTF-8, the only difference that I can see is that there are no " "

I have used these commands to setup the language in my server:

$ sudo apt-get install language-pack-en
$ sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Fred Dixon]

Hi German,

> If I continue the installation it finishes without any errors, but makes it impossible to connect WebRTC audio.

It looks like the addition of the PPA key actually works (so you could basically ignore the errors).

The setup of WebRTC is different.  Did you try it with FireFox (if you don't have SSL setup, Chrome will give you an error).

Regards,... Fred

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