Re: [Duplicity-talk] strange error when doing a backup

[John Covici]

Well, I did some experimenting and exporting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 not only
fixed the preferredencoding, but the gpg error disappeared as well and
the backup ran.

Thanks for giving me the hint about the encoding -- I really
appreciate the help.

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:32:12 -0400,
John Covici via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your quick response.
> 
> I get  'US-ASCII'  I wonder how to changeto unicode?
> 
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:02:40 -0400,
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > 
> > [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> > [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> > This is actually two levels of error.  The traceback is because Python 
> > can't decode the gpg error.  The real error is in gpg itself, but we can't 
> > see it because the decode error is triggering while trying to report the 
> > gpg error.
> > 
> > So, what is the encoding on your Mac?  You can find out what Python thinks 
> > it is by doing this
> > 
> > $ python2
> > Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 14:05:02) 
> > [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>> import locale
> > >>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
> > 'UTF-8'
> > 
> > That's the first level.  After we get that fixed, we'll see the gpg error 
> > message itself on the next run.
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:25 AM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >  I am trying to do a backup  using duplicity 7.10 on a Mac operating
> >  system 10.11.6.  I am getting the following error which I don't
> >  understand what to do with:
> >  After adding all the incremental backup sets, I get
> >  Last full backup date: Wed May  4 17:14:16 2016
> >  Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
> >      with_tempdir(main)
> >    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
> >      fn()
> >    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
> >      do_backup(action)
> >    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1521, in do_backup
> >      check_last_manifest(col_stats)  # not needed for full backup
> >    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1222, in check_last_manifest
> >      last_backup_set.check_manifests()
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
> >  line 199, in check_manifests
> >      remote_manifest = self.get_remote_manifest()
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
> >  line 234, in get_remote_manifest
> >      manifest_buffer = self.backend.get_data(self.remote_manifest_name)
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py",
> >  line 679, in get_data
> >      assert not fin.close()
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/dup_temp.py",
> >  line 226, in close
> >      assert not self.fileobj.close()
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
> >  line 259, in close
> >      self.gpg_failed()
> >    File 
> > "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
> >  line 223, in gpg_failed
> >      msg += unicode(line.strip(), locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace') 
> > + u"\n"
> >  LookupError: unknown encoding:
> > 
> >  Any ideas as to how to fix this error would be appreciated.
> > 
> >  --
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> > 
> >           John Covici
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> > 
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