It is indeed strange, because I can't reproduce it now either. I get the errors in #30 instead, with deja-dup saying it can't understand the duplicity version.
I think what may have happened is that because I couldn't get deja-dup to work I used the duplicity command line, and encrypted this particular backup. I don't normally encrypt this backup (which is mainly system files, config files etc). Is 'decode' something to do with encryption? Once duplicity seemed to be sorted I redid the backup without encryption, and now I get the issues in #30. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855736 Title: Duplicity fails to start Status in Duplicity: Fix Committed Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: I am on 19.10. Duplicity crashes as soon as I try to start a backup, as below. It was running fine on 19.04. Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 107, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 93, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1522, in main action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 1200, in ProcessCommandLine globals.backend = backend.get_backend(args[0]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 225, in get_backend obj = get_backend_object(url_string) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 211, in get_backend_object return factory(pu) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 81, in __init__ ensure_dbus() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 37, in ensure_dbus lines = output.split(u'\n') TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1855736/+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
