For me this bug was actually triggered by another new bug in lftp caused by glibc upgate, see #1902832 which was obfuscated by this bug.
I found the patch from 19.04 disco which was mentioned in #19 which fixed the unicode error for be and revealed the other bug. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/0.7.18.2-1ubuntu3.1 The change related to unicode is quite small, patch file "02-unicode": ############################################################################## Author: Alexander Zangerl <a...@debian.org> Subject: fix unicode decode-does-encode-and-fail problems with iso8859 locales --- a/bin/duplicity +++ b/bin/duplicity @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ import gzip import os + +# override locale to avoid bug #682837, until +# the logger finally deals with locales cleanly +os.environ['LC_ALL']="POSIX" + import sys import time import types ############################################################################## -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770929 Title: Duplicity fails with UnicodeDecodeError in uexc function To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1770929/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
