Working at a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in February 2019 - at a Lenovo X220, with a i5 processor and a 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD, together with a 4 TB external HD, "WD My Passport". However, I still stumble upon the same bug. However, I seemingly manage to work around it by acting as follows: TERMINAL >> sudo apt-get purge deja-dup duplicity > sudo apt-get autoremove > sudo reboot now > after the reboot: TERMINAL >> apt-get install deja-dup duplicity > sudo deja-dup.
On one hand, deja-dup has been making a first back-up ever since I hit the "sudo-deja" commando - now, a few hours ago. On the other hand, I got this terminal feedback in the first minutes after hitting the "sudo deja-dup" commanend. bas@Viaconsensus-iter:~$ sudo deja-dup ** (org.gnome.DejaDup:2519): CRITICAL **: 14:34:51.229: string_contains: assertion 'self != NULL' failed gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir '/home/bas/.gnupg' ** (org.gnome.DejaDup:2519): WARNING **: 14:35:56.153: AssistantOperation.vala:904: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.secrets: Timeout was reached After "Timeout was reached", deja-dup seemingly started the backup process that is still ongoing. I keep you posted here on my experiences. Yours, Bas G. ROufs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup" Status in Déjà Dup: Fix Released Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Linux release: Ubuntu 13.04 64bit Kernel: 3.8.0-29-generic Python: 2.7.4 Deja Dup: 26.0 Duplicity: 0.6.21 Hi. I've tried to do my monthly or so backup recently, but Deja Dup crashed after trying to backup a very large file (VM disk with Windows 7, 50GB or so). I tried to do another one, this time excluding all my large VM's. However, now when trying to do a backup I'm getting the following error a few seconds after inputting my encryption password: Could not restore ‘/home/tom/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup I've tried reinstalling both deja-dup and duplicity, purging duplicity, deleting deja-dup and duplicity from /home/tom/.cache, deleting the backup files on the external drive, deleting it's config as described here http://askubuntu.com/questions/53980/how-to-delete- all-the-settings-for-deja-dup. I know (well, I have some evidence supporting this) that the drive itself isn't faulty as I managed to backup my old laptop to the drive using duplicity and it worked fine (Fedora 19, deja dup 26.0 I think). I will upload the appropriate logs momentarily. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1217959/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
