UPDATE: In my situation, the problem was caused by using a backup
directory ("/var/backups") that my user did not have permission to write
to. A simple chmod fixed the issue, but this manifested itself in deja-
dup as a unicode error. Please consider adding a check/caveat to the
code to provide a more helpful error message in cases where permission
is denied.-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736164 Title: deja-dup/duplicity backup fails with UnicodeDecodeError Status in Déjà Dup: Triaged Status in Duplicity: New Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: New Status in deja-dup package in Fedora: In Progress Bug description: See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470873 Description of problem: With the update from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 Workstation, backups with deja-dup/duplicity are failing Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): duplicity 0.7.13.1 deja-dup 34.3 How reproducible: Always (scheduled and manually started backup) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for the scheduled backup to start or start it via the "Backup now" button 2. Some or a large number of files might get backed up, then the backup stops with "Failed with an unknown error" 3. Actual results: Backup fails Expected results: Backup completes as it always did Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1534, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1385, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1516, in do_backup incremental_backup(sig_chain) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 668, in incremental_backup globals.backend) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in write_multivol (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num))) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously ret = fn(*params) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 452, in <lambda> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num), File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 341, in put backend.put(tdp, dest_filename) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 376, in inner_retry % exception_traceback()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 51, in exception_traceback return uexc(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc e = unicode(e).encode('utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 746: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1736164/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
