Hi Eric, I can only guess but from the look of it, you had e.g. an (apt) upgrade running and your python or rdiff-backup installation was inconsistent, the import mechanism was broken. I can pretty surely say that it had nothing to do with rdiff-backup itself. KR, Eric
On November 19, 2022 12:51:06 AM UTC, Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> wrote: >I rebooted the box and now the backup seems to be working OK. Any idea as to >what these messages might mean would still be appreciated. > >On 11/18/22 19:40, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> I just tried to run rdiff-backup on my Ubuntu 20.04 setup on a Dell XPS 13". >> The following command has run successfully any number of times in the three >> months since I got my new box (Dell factory Ubuntu image installed.) Now I >> get this strange string of messages. What do they mean? >> >> eric@eric-XPS-9315:~$ sudo rdiff-backup --exclude "/home/eric/VirtualBox >> VMs" --include /home/ --include /var/www --include /usr/share/fonts >> --exclude '**' / /media/eric/021cc172-036d-4b8c-be87-c6298c9f7c4c/XPS-2022-08 >> [sudo] password for eric: >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 19, in <module> >> import rdiff_backup.Main >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 30, in >> <module> >> from . import ( >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line >> 31, in <module> >> from . import Globals, connection, rpath >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 844, in exec_module >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 976, in get_code >> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 640, in >> _compile_bytecode >> ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code) >>