Re: [rdiff-backup-users] FW: Bug#252664: rdiff-backup: gives truckloads of exception tracebacks

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> John Goerzen <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:24:34 -0500

> From: Marc Haber <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:10:09 +0200
> 
> |Processing changed file proc/9989/task/9989/attr/fscreate
> |Exception '[Errno 22] Invalid argument' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError':
...
> |UpdateError proc/9989/task/9989/attr/fscreate [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> 
> Having a backup program raising unhandled exceptions is quite
> disturbing. Please consider properly handling this case.

The output you pasted seems to indicate rdiff-backup was handling the
exceptions.  That "UpdateError" message comes from rdiff-backup.  In
general if there is a unhandled exception in python the program exits
immediately.

I just tried this on my machine, when run as normal user, everything
works fine (although there will be tons of error messages when trying
to read /proc).  When run as root it seems to hang, probably on a file
read to some special proc file (that ordinary users don't have access
to).  That's not really ideal but I don't see offhand how to fix stuff
like that.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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