On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Joe Steele <j...@madewell.net> wrote:
On 12/13/2015 7:03 AM, Andrea Cozzolino wrote: > >> I have quite the same problem and in the *same* environment >> (openSUSE 13.2/rdiff-backup 1.2.8). >> >> I have a broken and, so far, unrecoverable backup store. >> >> Each time I try to backup my home dir, I got a "Negative seek" >> error while "Writing file object to >> > > The vanilla rdiff-backup 1.2.8 does not have "outputfp.seek(-1, os.SEEK_CUR)" on line 97 of rpath.py > Mumble ... that line looks guilty to me. <https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/222465> [ snip snip ] > Apparently, that was causing somebody to have same problem that you are having, and another patch was added: > https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/259636 [ snip snip ] > Based on the line numbers in your log, it would appear that you do not have that second patch which was intended to fix the problem. > Latest openSuSE rdiff-backup release does not have the second patch. > In looking at the openSUSE packages ( > http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=Archiving&package=rdiff-backup > ), it appears that openSUSE 13.2 contains rdiff-backup-1.2.8-42.3. It is also > evident when looking at the source that revision 42.3 contains the second patch > referenced above (and which you do not seem to have). So that would imply that you are not > using their current revision(?). > No, I had rdiff-backup-1.2.8-22.1.4. Release 22.1.4 is the latest in mainstream openSuSE update repository. The version 42.3 is only in "Archiving" repository, an optional repository. I subscribed the optional repository and upgraded to release 42.3. I did a couple of test and the problem seems solved. Thank you Joe for your help. LLaP, Andrea -- Necessity is the mother of invention ... MacGyver is the father! La necessità è madre dell'invenzione ... MacGyver è il padre!
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