Déjà Dup

Unable to load gio backend: No module named gi.repository

Bug #1186070 reported by pkrev
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Bug Description

Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.4 (Santiago)

backup was working fine before I upgraded from RHEL6.3 to RHEL6.4

Running deja-dup from console

** (deja-dup:8537): CRITICAL **: deja_dup_duplicity_cmp_prefix: assertion `b != NULL' failed
** (deja-dup:8537): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:199: Running the following duplicity (9304) command: duplicity 'collection-status' '--exclude=/home/uros/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/uros/.Private' '--exclude=/home/uros/.recent-applications.xbel' '--exclude=/home/uros/.recently-used.xbel' '--exclude=/home/uros/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/uros/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/uros/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/uros/.cache' '--include=/home/uros' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--gio' 'smb://10.0.10.5/public/uros' '--verbosity=9' '--archive-dir=/home/uros/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-file=/tmp/deja-dup-6NU4XW'

** (deja-dup:8537): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:552: duplicity (9304) exited with value 40

Running just duplicity command from console

 duplicity 'collection-status' '--exclude=/home/uros/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/uros/.Private' '--exclude=/home/uros/.recent-applications.xbel' '--exclude=/home/uros/.recently-used.xbel' '--exclude=/home/uros/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/uros/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/uros/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/uros/.cache' '--include=/home/uros' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--gio' 'smb://10.0.10.5/public/uros' '--verbosity=9' '--archive-dir=/home/uros/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-file=/tmp/deja-dup-6NU4XW'
Unable to load gio backend: No module named gi.repository

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

This sounds like python-gi (or whatever RHEL calls that package) isn't installed.

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Adrian Wilkins (adrian-wilkins) wrote :

I also got this after a fresh install of Xenial.

* Fresh install of 16.04
* Restored home folder (preconfigured backups)
* Ran into bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1576083
* Installed duplicity using apt-get
* Dialog changes to "No module named gi.repository"

python-gi is installed for python3 but not the python2 that duplicity uses.

Installed manually using apt-get

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Matt Samudio (matt-ww) wrote :

Hey Adrian, how about a mention of the package name you provided to apt-get for this ?

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Matt Samudio (matt-ww) wrote :

OK, here's what I found ....

When I did a fresh install of 16.04, and then did "python -V", I get "Python 2.7.11+".
It seems python2 is the "default" - I wasn't sure why python3 would be relevant, so
I did a bit of digging and found that I could try this:

apt-get install --reinstall python-gi

... that did the trick.

Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in deja-dup:
status: New → Fix Released
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