Re: rdiff-backup 2.0.0 crashed the first time I ran it

[Walt Mankowski]

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
> >>
> > 
>