Apparently, it checks the cron file for these patterns of stars (there are five positions, they are numbered 0,1,2,3,4): 1,2,3,4 2,3,4 2,3 3,4
Your cron file has 1,2,3 stars. This is interpreted as 2,3 stars, and sbackup attempts to read 1 as a number (line 194). Because 1 is not a number, it crashes. This is as far as I can go with diagnosing the issue. I don't know the semantics of a cron file, so I can't fix the issue. I guess we will now have to wait for the maintainer to. This is no longer "needs info", so i'm setting it "confirmed" ** Changed in: sbackup (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed -- No open /usr/sbin/simple-backup-config, post run https://launchpad.net/bugs/5720 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs