Adding needed repository... Failed!

[Nexqs]

@Sebastian-Roth Ubuntu is installed on a VM (with 3 Go ramfor the vm : i have 8go on my laptop, an ssd and i3). It did the same thing with my VM on my desktop (i7, 6go ram for the vm and 16go in total and a ssd).
Here is the key :

fog@fogserver:~$ wget -O key.txt "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0x14AA40EC0831756756D7F66C4F4EA0AAE5267A6C"
--2018-04-01 14:41:46--  http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0x14AA40EC0831756756D7F66C4F4EA0AAE5267A6C
Resolving keyserver.ubuntu.com (keyserver.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.90.55, 91.189.89.49
Connecting to keyserver.ubuntu.com (keyserver.ubuntu.com)|91.189.90.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 626 [application/pgp-keys]
Saving to: ‘key.txt’

key.txt             100%[===================>]     626  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2018-04-01 14:42:02 (39.4 MB/s) - ‘key.txt’ saved [626/626]

fog@fogserver:~$ cat key.txt
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.1.6
Comment: Hostname: keyserver.ubuntu.com

mI0ESX35nAEEALKDCUDVXvmW9n+T/+3G1DnTpoWh9/1xNaz/RrUH6fQKhHr568F8hfnZP/2C
GYVYkW9hxP9LVW9IDvzcmnhgIwK+ddeaPZqh3T/FM4OTA7Q78HSvR81mJpf2iMLm/Zvh89Zs
mP2sIgZuARiaHo8lxoTSLtmKXsM3FsJVlusyewHfABEBAAG0H0xhdW5jaHBhZCBQUEEgZm9y
IE9uZMWZZWogU3Vyw72ItgQTAQIAIAUCSX35nAIbAwYLCQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheA
AAoJEE9OoKrlJnpsQjYD/jW1NlIFAlT6EvF2xfVbkhERii9MapjaUsSso4XLCEmZdEGX54GQ
01svXnrivwnd/kmhKvyxCqiNLDY/dOaK8MK//bDI6mqdKmG8XbP2vsdsxhifNC+GH/OwaDPv
n1TyYB653kwyruCGFjEnCreZTcRUu2oBQyolORDl+BmF4DjL
=R5tk
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
fog@fogserver:~$ 

[Sebastian Roth]

@Nexqs I am at a loss here. This seems to be such a strange issue. I have seen a lot of crazy things happen but this one I can’t get my head around. Why would apt-add-repository tell us “timed out” if it comes back adding the key anyway.

Are you keen to just modify the installer script to skip the check and go on? We can give you instructions on how to do this.

[Nexqs]

@Sebastian-Roth Yes sure ! strange issue …

[Sebastian Roth]

@Nexqs Sorry for my late reply. Please try this: Edit /opt/fogproject/lib/common/functions.sh, jump to line 623 and add a hash tag as comment at the beginning to disable, make it look like this:

...
            esac
            ;;
    esac
    #errorStat $?
    dots "Preparing Package Manager"
...

Now rerun the installer as usual.

[Arrowtron]

Hi there,

I am getting the same issue as well, please assist

Currently running FOG 1.5.0, trying to upgrade to 1.5.2 through PUTTY

I am not running through a Proxy, i have upgraded to 1.5.0 a few weeks ago i think

[Arrowtron]

@arrowtron

Update:

@Sebastian-Roth Post about editing \root\fogproject\lib\common\functions.sh has fixed the issue

Thanks!

[benc]

I just ran into this issue:

 * Adding needed repository....................................Failed!

Fresh install of Ubuntu server 18.04 LTS using network installer on an old IBM X3650 server. The only software I selected to install during Ubuntu setup was the SSH server. Downloaded and extracted the tarball from https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/archive/1.5.5.tar.gz. Could not get past the error until I ran this:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

It looks like the FOG install script expected that package to already be installed. Hope this helps someone.

Ben

[Sebastian Roth]

@benc Thanks for letting us know. As far as I can see we do exactly this within the installer. See here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/master/lib/common/functions.sh#L534

As we have been informed about this being an issue within Ubuntu twice in the last days I am wondering if there is anything Ubuntu changed to make this fail?!

@Wayne-Workman The installer test seems absolutely fine but possibly that’s because you have the package software-properties-common pre-installed? Can you check on that? I have had a look at the logs from your installer tests but the package is not mentioned and that’s why I guess you have it pre-installed…

[Sebastian Roth]

@benc I just pushed a fix to the dev-branch - download here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/archive/dev-branch.tar.gz

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth said in Adding needed repository... Failed!:

@Wayne-Workman The installer test seems absolutely fine but possibly that’s because you have the package software-properties-common pre-installed? Can you check on that? I have had a look at the logs from your installer tests but the package is not mentioned and that’s why I guess you have it pre-installed…

Yes, it’s pre-installed. This is on Ubuntu 18.04 server, minimal installation.

root@ip-10-0-0-165:~# dpkg -l | grep software-properties-common
ii  software-properties-common     0.96.24.32.7                      all          manage the repositories that you install software from (common)