rdiff-backup-statistics crashed with IOError in open()

Hew,

Thank you for submitting this bug report. The next version of rdiff-backup-statistics (1.2.3) will now print a more helpful messages when errors like this occur.

Thanks again,
Andrew

Thanks for the quick fix. Since you specifically mentioned rdiff-backup-statistics, I should say that the same thing happens when running rdiff-backup as a user on a root backup, so I'm not sure if your fix applies to that as well. I'll test with 1.2.3 when it's released. Thanks again!

Hi Hew,

What do you mean by "the same thing happens when running rdiff-backup as a user on a root backup" ? Do you get a traceback, or a human-readable error message?

Obviously, there's nothing that can be done other than printing an error message -- a regular user can't do anything about files owned by root. :-)

Andrew

I just meant that I reported the problem occurring with rdiff-backup-statistics, but it also happens with rdiff-backup itself, that's all. It occurs with rdiff-backup when adding an increment as a user, when the backup (and hence the files) were previously done as root. It also occurs when running rdiff-backup-statistics as a user on the backup done as root, as I originally reported. They are very similar issues, if not the same.

I understand that the solution is to print an error message, this is ideal compared to the crash :-)

I have attached the output of each command, which includes the traceback. This is when using 1.1.16-2.

Session 1 was run as a user, hence the error only when it reaches session 2.

Ok, rdiff-backup in CVS will no longer print a traceback if you cannot read the backup destination.

Marking Fix Committed since the fix exists in upstream CVS, to be released with rdiff-backup 1.2.3.

Marking Fix Released since rdiff-backup 1.2.5-1 is now in Jaunty