Thanks, it's good to know it's already been fixed! Walt
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:23:23AM +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote: > Hi Walt, > > no issue, we all have our terse days ;-) > > The error is known and already fixed in the repo: > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/310 > > Next release (no due date yet) will have the fix. > > KR, Eric > > On 29/04/2020 21:45, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > First I'd like to apologize for the terseness of my original post. It > > was early Sunday morning when I wore up and discovered that my backup > > had failed, and as a result I wasn't at my best. > > > > I did some more poking at the problem and here's what I discovered (I > > also posted this at the launchpad URL). > > > > I modified get_indexpath() in log.py to catch a TypeError exception > > and return the string "TypeError" instead of aborting. It printed 4 > > errors: > > > > ListError: 'TypeError' [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/run/user/1000/doc' > > ListError: 'TypeError' [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/run/user/1000/gvfs' > > ListError: 'TypeError' [Errno 13] Permission denied: > > b'/run/user/1000/keybase/kbfs' > > ListError: 'TypeError' [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/run/user/141/gvfs' > > > > I'm not really sure what's wrong with the first 3. Maybe they're odd > > because they're in /run? The final file does really look like it might > > be corrupted. > > > > I ran the code in the debugger and was able to confirm that the data > > in the rpath was bytes instead of strings. I wasn't able to find where > > they were getting loaded. > > > > At any rate it looks like the easy fix on my end is to exclude /run > > from my backups. I did that last night and rdiff-backup ran without > > errors. > > > > Is there any other information you'd like me to provide to help track > > down what's causing the problem? > > > > Walt > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 07:33:35AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I updated to Ubuntu 20.04 yesterday, which includes rdiff-backup > >> 2.0.0-1. It crashed when it ran last night. I posted the bug to > >> Launchpad but thought I'd crosspost it here too. > >> > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdiff-backup/+bug/1875163 > >> > >> Walt > >> > > >
