Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exception 'ea' of type <type 'exceptions.KeyError'>

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am seeing the following traceback from rdiff-backup. Both machines
> are running rdiff-backup rdiff-backup-1.0.5-7.fc9.x86_64. Both
> machines are running fedora core 9. Does anyone have any suggestion as
> to where I should start looking for the cause of the problem?

> Sending back exception 'ea' of type <type 'exceptions.KeyError'>:
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 334, in answer_request
>    result = apply(eval(request.function_string), argument_list)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py",
> line 70, in Regress
>    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
> line 285, in __call__
>    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py",
> line 232, in fast_process
>    if rf.metadata_rorp.isreg(): self.restore_orig_regfile(rf)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py",
> line 256, in restore_orig_regfile
>    rpath.copy_attribs(rf.metadata_rorp, tf)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
> line 161, in copy_attribs
>    if Globals.eas_write: rpout.write_ea(rpin.get_ea())
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
> line 614, in get_ea
>    return self.data['ea']


Hmm, yes. Another bug in the 'stable' version which was long-ago fixed  
in the 1.1.x releases. :-/

Well, you could upgrade to 1.1.15 (which is really quite stable), or  
you can choose not to backup EAs and ACLs, or you can reply once  
again, and I should be able to send you a small patch to fix it.


Andrew