Re: [rdiff-backup-users] KeyError: 'xattr'

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Austin Roberts wrote:
> Exception ''xattr'' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>':


Hi Austin,

This is somewhat of a strange error to get. You are getting this error  
because the remote side of the connection cannot import the 'xattr'  
Python module, which is the support for Extended Attributes. However,  
rdiff-backup tests for extended attributes support during  
initialization and should never request functions from that module,  
unless it has successfully loaded it.

To diagnose this problem, please send the following information:

1) What version of rdiff-backup you are using, both on the local side  
and the remote side(s)

2) The command line you are using to run rdiff-backup

3) The output of rdiff-backup with the  -v 4   option added (this will  
set the verbosity of your logging to 4). With the -v 4 option, we will  
be able to see the results of rdiff-backup's tests for extended  
attributes support.



Have you setup Extended Attributes support in the past and recently  
tried to disable it?

Finally, you can definitely avoid this problem by adding the --no-eas  
option to rdiff-backup. That will turn off extended attributes support  
and bypass the tests for it (although I am interested in why the test  
is reporting success for you and then this error occurs).


Andrew