Public bug reported: For a couple of weeks, my weekly backup (deja-dup+duplicity, ubuntu 18.04) fails with:
Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1555, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1541, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1393, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1511, in do_backup full_backup(col_stats) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 572, in full_backup globals.backend) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 454, in write_multivol (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously ret = fn(*params) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in <lambda> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num), File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 342, in put backend.put(tdp, dest_filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 395, in inner_retry % (n, e.__class__.__name__, util.uexc(e))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc return ufn(unicode(e).encode('utf-8')) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128) It looks like this Unicode error repeatedly arises, whatever the version of duplicity. Mine is: Package: duplicity Version: 0.7.17-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Alexander Zangerl <a...@debian.org> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1 090 kB Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), librsync1 (>= 0.9.6), python (<< 2.8), python (>= 2.7~), python-fasteners, python:any (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), python-lockfile (>> 1:0.9), gnupg | gnupg1 Suggests: rsync, python-paramiko, python-pexpect, python-urllib3, python-oauthlib, python-boto, ncftp, python-cloudfiles, lftp, python-gdata, tahoe-lafs, python-swiftclient Homepage: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ Task: ubuntu-mate-desktop Supported: 5y Download-Size: 183 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages If this is a problem with some files encoding, how can I locate which one(s) is faulty? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: duplicity 0.7.17-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Jun 25 13:18:38 2018 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is a distribution channel descriptor # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-xenial-amd64-20160624-2 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-07 (137 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: duplicity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-17 (38 days ago) ** Affects: duplicity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778504 Title: duplicity failed with UnicodeDecodeError To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/1778504/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs