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has caused the Debian Bug report #1116567,
regarding backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message:
ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py
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Package: backintime-common
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: normal
I have backintime-common and backintime-qt installed on a machine. I
connected to the machine via ssh, and then su'd to root. As root,
DISPLAY is unset. I ran "backintime backup", and it just hangs.
Hitting ctrl-C I get the output:
^CERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py:
INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
...
and then the backup runs normally.
It's presumably hanging because it can't connect to any Qt services,
but it probably shouldn't be looking for them when not running in a
graphical environment.
Best wishes,
Julian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages backintime-common depends on:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-197
ii openssh-client 1:10.0p1-7
ii python3 3.13.5-1
ii python3-dbus 1.4.0-1
ii python3-keyring 25.6.0-2
ii python3-packaging 25.0-1
ii rsync 3.4.1+ds1-5
Versions of packages backintime-common recommends:
ii backintime-qt 1.5.5-1
ii sshfs 3.7.3-1.1+b2
Versions of packages backintime-common suggests:
ii encfs 1.9.5-3
pn nocache <none>
ii powermgmt-base 1.38
-- no debconf information
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Insufficient information.
Not reproducible by upstream
No response from opener.
tags -1 unreproducible
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