Bug 796271 – Crash ftpadmin install

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Bug 796271 - Crash ftpadmin install


Summary:	Crash ftpadmin install


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	sysadmin
Classification:	Infrastructure
Component:	Other
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	GNOME Sysadmins
QA Contact:	GNOME Sysadmins

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Blocks:

Reported:	2018-05-20 11:10 UTC by Sébastien Wilmet
Modified:	2018-05-21 15:15 UTC

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Description Sébastien Wilmet 2018-05-20 11:10:09 UTC

```
[swilmet@master ~]$ ftpadmin install gnome-latex-3.28.1.tar.xz                                                                                                  [22/4710]
Gathering information and sorting on version: ., done
Preparing installation of gnome-latex-3.28.1.tar.xz:             
 - Checking consistency: ....., done    
 - Checking previous tarball: ....., done                         
 - NEWS, done (diff, 12 lines)       
 - ChangeLog, ignored (no change)                                 
 - Copying tar.xz, done                              
 - Creating sha256sum, done                                           
                                                     
      Module: gnome-latex                                          
     Version: 3.28.1   (previous version: 3.28.0)
 Destination: /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-latex/3.28/               
                                                             
Install gnome-latex? [Y/n]                                         
Installing gnome-latex-3.28.1.tar.xz:  
 - Moving files: ..., done                                            
 - Updating LATEST-IS, done                                  
 - Updating known versions, done                                   
 - Removing original tarball, done     
Doing notifications:                                                  
 - Informing ftp-release-listTraceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 238623

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1870 in <module>
```
main()
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1855 in main
```
options.func(options, parser)
```

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1538 in cmd_install

module.install(unattended=options.unattended, clobber=options.clobber)

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1169 in install
```
self.inform()
```

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1214 in inform

'X-Maintainer-Upload': str(self.pw.pw_name in self.moduleinfo.maintainers)

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 913 in maintainers
```
self._set_doap()
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 894 in _set_doap
```
doap = DOAP()
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 313 in __init__
```
self._init_doap()
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 341 in _init_doap
```
j = json.load(open(self.jsonfile, 'rb'))
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 267 in load
```
parse_constant=parse_constant, **kw)
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307 in loads
```
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319 in decode
```
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 336 in raw_decode
```
obj, end = self._scanner.iterscan(s, **kw).next()
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/scanner.py", line 55 in iterscan
```
rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 217 in JSONArray
```
value, end = iterscan(s, idx=end, context=context).next()
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/scanner.py", line 55 in iterscan
```
rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 183 in JSONObject
```
value, end = iterscan(s, idx=end, context=context).next()
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/scanner.py", line 55 in iterscan
```
rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 185 in JSONObject
```
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting object", s, end))
```

ValueError: Expecting object: line 1 column 36638 (char 36638)

```

Comment 1 Andrea Veri 2018-05-21 15:15:17 UTC

This was related to a faulty DOAP file [1], should be fixed by now. If you want to re-run the latest step of your release please launch `ftpadmin notify module.tar.gz`.

cheers,


[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg-oci-images/commit/1c17f6ed62c7320e99f6e0d12de5d8b11db172af