[rdiff-backup-users] Bug on 1.2.8

[Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso]

Hello,

This is the problem:

[...]

Regressing attributes of
/media/Iomega_HDD/Backups/durruti.marzoa.com/home/fmmarzoa/.macromedia/Macromedia/Flash
Player/#SharedObjects                                              
Regressing file home/fmmarzoa/.macromedia/Macromedia/Flash
Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/#bin.clearspring.com/settings.sol 
                                       
 
Regressing aException 'ord() expected a character, but string of length
0 found' raised of class '<type
'exceptions.TypeError'>':                                                   
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line
32, in
check_common_error                                                              
                   
 
    try: return
function(*args)                                                                 
                                                                                
  
 
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line
462, in
get_fp                                                                          
                 
 
    current_fp =
self.get_first_fp()                                                             
                                                                                
 
 
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line
499, in
get_first_fp                                                                    
                 
 
    rpath.copyfileobj(fp,
current_fp)                                                                     
                                                                        
 
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
62, in
copyfileobj                                                                     
                    
 
    inbuf =
inputfp.read(blocksize)                                                         
                                                                                
      
 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gzip.py", line 219, in
read                                                                            
                                                
 
   
self._read(readsize)                                                            
                                                                                
              
 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gzip.py", line 255, in
_read                                                                           
                                                
 
   
self._read_gzip_header()                                                        
                                                                                
              
 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gzip.py", line 157, in
_read_gzip_header                                                               
                                                
 
    method = ord( self.fileobj.read(1)
)                                            

[...]

Relevant information:

$ rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 1.2.8

$ python --version
Python 2.6.2

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
Release:        9.04
Codename:       jaunty


The server and the client are the same physical machine. I'm making the
backup from an ext4 FS to an NTFS one, but this should not have nothing
to see with the problem. It has been working fine until I updated from
Kubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, so the problem may be probably on the newer
version of rdiff-backup (1.2.8).

Any ideas?