That bug has been fixed in 0.8.13. Please upgrade to the current version of duplicity. This will assure that any bugs fixed since your release are available and may fix your issue.
There are multiple options both stable and daily: * Source - https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity * Stable tarball install - https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+download * Daily duplicity PPA - https://code.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/duplicity-develop-git * Stable duplicity PPA - https://code.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/duplicity-release-git * Stable snap builds - “sudo snap install duplicity —classic" * Latest snap builds - “sudo snap install duplicity —classic —edge" * Latest pip3 builds - “sudo pip3 install duplicity" NOTE: UNinstall duplicity first if it was installed via the distribution repository. For Ubuntu that would be "sudo apt-get purge duplicity". ** Also affects: duplicity Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: duplicity Status: New => Invalid -- 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/1881926 Title: deja-dup fails with root account Status in Duplicity: Invalid Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am running deja-dup in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), which has duplicity/focal,now 0.8.11.1612-1 and deja-dup/focal,now 40.6-1ubuntu2. When I run deja-dup as myself, it runs fine, but when I launch it with sudo, it fails: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 106, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 92, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1525, in main action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 1175, in ProcessCommandLine globals.backend = backend.get_backend(args[0]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 225, in get_backend obj = get_backend_object(url_string) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 211, in get_backend_object return factory(pu) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 82, in __init__ ensure_dbus() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 37, in ensure_dbus output = p.communicate()[0].decode("utf8", errors="replace") AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1881926/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
