Package: obnam Version: 1.22-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Yesterday's daily backup failed, output from the terminal: obnam backup 00h00m27s Backing up: found 3283 files, 1.29 GiB; uploaded: 0 B /home/gijs/.node-gyp/4.3.1/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-ppc/opensslconf.hTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliapp/app.py", line 193, in _run self.process_args(args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/app.py", line 228, in process_args cliapp.Application.process_args(self, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliapp/app.py", line 593, in process_args method(args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 166, in backup self.backup_roots(root_urls) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 369, in backup_roots self.backup_root(root_url, absroots) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 396, in backup_root for pathname, metadata in self.find_files(absroot): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 577, in find_files for pathname, st in self.fs.scan_tree(root, ok=self.can_be_backed_up): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 337, in scan_tree items = process_dir(filename, metadata, items) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 324, in process_dir for subname, submeta in list_files(dirname)] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 304, in list_files pairs = self.listdir2(pathname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs_local.py", line 418, in listdir2 st = self.lstat(os.path.join(dirname, name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs_local.py", line 235, in lstat ctime_sec, ctime_nsec) = obnamlib._obnam.lstat(self.join(pathname)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 60: ordinal not in range(128) and leaving the same in the obnam log: 2017-08-25 09:13:58 INFO Backing up /home/gijs/fortunes 2017-08-25 09:13:58 INFO Attempting to unlock client because of error 2017-08-25 09:13:58 INFO Unlocking client luxpondusbufocogitans 2017-08-25 09:13:58 INFO Successfully unlocked 2017-08-25 09:13:58 CRITICAL Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliapp/app.py", line 193, in _run self.process_args(args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/app.py", line 228, in process_args cliapp.Application.process_args(self, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cliapp/app.py", line 593, in process_args method(args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 166, in backup self.backup_roots(root_urls) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 369, in backup_roots self.backup_root(root_url, absroots) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 396, in backup_root for pathname, metadata in self.find_files(absroot): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/plugins/backup_plugin.py", line 577, in find_files for pathname, st in self.fs.scan_tree(root, ok=self.can_be_backed_up): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 337, in scan_tree items = process_dir(filename, metadata, items) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 324, in process_dir for subname, submeta in list_files(dirname)] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs.py", line 304, in list_files pairs = self.listdir2(pathname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs_local.py", line 418, in listdir2 st = self.lstat(os.path.join(dirname, name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obnamlib/vfs_local.py", line 235, in lstat ctime_sec, ctime_nsec) = obnamlib._obnam.lstat(self.join(pathname)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 60: ordinal not in range(128) I don't immediately see what is the issue, it seems similar to debian bug 800386, but it's not clear to me which application is causing the error. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages obnam depends on: ii gnupg 2.1.23-2 ii libc6 2.24-15 ii python 2.7.13-2 ii python-cliapp 1.20170823-1 ii python-fuse 2:0.2.1-14 ii python-larch 1.20151025-1 ii python-paramiko 2.0.0-1 ii python-tracing 0.9-1 ii python-ttystatus 0.34-1 ii python-yaml 3.12-1+b1 obnam recommends no packages. obnam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information