Hello Julian,
thank you for your feedback.
Am 12.10.2025 16:43 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
(Sorry, I only just spotted this - you forgot to copy me in to your
emails and I'm not subscribed to this bug report.)
I am confused. Why are you not subscribed but you are the reporter?
Doesn't the system subscribe you automatically?
I don't forgot to CC you directly because I always assume that the
reporter is subcribed.
Here's the result of running it with --debug:
Mhm... I still have no hot trail on this.
Can you please check the syslog? It might be that the systrayicon-thing
does log something that does not appear on stdout/stderr.
does seem to be related to this DISPLAY setting. However, if I ssh to
the machine without using -X, so DISPLAY is unset, and try running
"backintime backup" as this regular user, it works fine too. So there
appears to be some subtle combination of DISPLAY and running as root
going on.
I also ssh'ed as a regular user and than did "sudo su" and started
"backintime backup --debug" (DISPLAY is not set).
No hanging. Can you give me more details about your setup? There is no X
server running at all? I'll have to setup a test VM to check this case.
Regards,
Christian
