Trunk Update Failing

[Psycholiquid]

I’m not sure, but the site that is the landing for the PPA is showing just fine.

root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6 -y
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6’.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

The change in format didnt make a difference. But even if I manually put it in there it wont allow the installer to work since it will still be trying to add it its own way correct?

[Wayne Workman]

@Psycholiquid

You followed the second answer on that page?

The proper way is to enable UTF-8 support in your terminal.
First check your locales:
locale -a
Then, install an UTF-8 locale, for en_US, the example as follows:
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Then you need to export it:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Then the add-apt-repository command will work okay.
If this still doesn’t still work, try using this line:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6

[george1421]

for clarity I found those commands in <fog_trunk>/lib/common/functions.sh In case you want to update your way to an answer.

[Psycholiquid]

@Wayne-Workman said:

@Psycholiquid So what’s the correct format? A quick google search yeilded this: http://serverfault.com/questions/666754/ppaondrej-php5-5-6-on-ubuntu

I wasn’t trying to be a smart ass when I posted that I was just copying what outputted to my screen.

I tried the URL you suggested and get the following:```

root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# dd-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
No command 'dd-apt-repository' found, did you mean:
 Command 'add-apt-repository' from package 'software-properties-common' (main)
dd-apt-repository: command not found
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.
root@CINDSV10011:/home/ladmin# locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Are you behind a proxy by chance?

[Psycholiquid]

No sir direct connection to the internet

[Sebastian Roth]

@Psycholiquid May CA-certs problem?? See here: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/fix-cannot-add-ppa-please-check-that.html

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom Elliot was able to find the issue.

Apprently the time was off.

added ntp server and updated and now everything works as intended,

[Tom Elliott]

I’m adding code to the add-apt-repository element that will: #NOTE this is specific to Ubuntu/maybe Debian

1. Try installing the ppa.
   a. ensure python-software-properties, software-properties-common, and ntpdate are installed.
   b. update the date on the server
   c. attempt adding the repository.
2. If it cannot install the ppa:
   a. Update the repository data (apt-get update)
   b. Install python-software-properties and ntpdate
   c. Update the time server.
   d. Ensure the en_US.UTF-8 locale is generated on the system
   e. attempt adding the repository with: LANG='en_US.UTF-8' LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6

Hopefully this will prevent any more such issues and you’ll have an updated time system.

[Psycholiquid]

I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the Trunk but I had to roll back the server (Wouldn’t image anymore TFTP seemed to be messed) but the time was correct so I am wondering if something in the Trunk changed ntp on me. The ntp.pool.org was there when I rolled back to the snapshot.

All that being said alot was messed with so it could have been anything.

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid so it worked after rollback?

[Psycholiquid]

trying it now will update

[Psycholiquid]

Yep upgrade worked like a champ. So in short all it needed on my end was the upgrade and update. But adding the code wouldn’t be a bad idea as most of us wouldn’t think it that far through. Still not sure what happened with NTP.