Re: [Duplicity-talk] RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

[Kenneth Loafman]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Last night I used Duplicity 0.4.2 to make a backup of my server.
> Or rather, I tried :)
>
> After 201 minutes, it failed.
>
> [...]
> Catched exception ftplib.error_perm530 Sorry, no more connections for your ip 
> (#1), sleeping 10s before retry..
> Catched exception ftplib.error_perm530 Sorry, no more connections for your ip 
> (#1), sleeping 10s before retry..
> Catched exception ftplib.error_perm530 Sorry, no more connections for your ip 
> (#1), sleeping 10s before retry..
> Catched exception ftplib.error_perm530 Sorry, no more connections for your ip 
> (#1), sleeping 10s before retry..
> login ['1431', '********']
> FTP: connect ('backupserver',)
> FTP: login ['1431', '********']
> FTP: connect ('backupserver',)
> FTP: login ['1431', '********']
> FTP: connect ('backupserver',)                                                  
>                                                        FTP: login ['1431', 
> '********']
> FTP: connect ('backupserver',)
> [...]
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 342, in 
> connect
>     self.error_wrap('login', self.parsed_url.user, self.get_password())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 384, in 
> error_wrap
>     self.connect()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 336, in 
> connect
>     self.error_wrap('connect', self.parsed_url.host)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 367, in 
> error_wrap
>     return ftplib.FTP.__dict__[command](self.ftp, *args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ftplib.py", line 132, in connect
>     self.welcome = self.getresp()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ftplib.py", line 207, in getresp
>     resp = self.getmultiline()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ftplib.py", line 193, in getmultiline
>     line = self.getline()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ftplib.py", line 180, in getline
>     line = self.file.readline()
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
>
> Why did I get this RuntimeError? Did duplicity try to login to the
> FTP server multiple times?
>
> You can find the logfile of verbosity=5 at 
> http://alexander.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/Duplicity%20Thu%20May%2010%2000:57:53%20CEST%202007.txt
> (Size: 15m) or at 
> http://alexander.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/Duplicity%20Thu%20May%2010%2000:57:53%20CEST%202007.txt.bz2
> (Size: 779k).
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Alexander Skwar

Thanks for the detail, I got the logfile.

Just a couple of questions to help me with this:
1) what was the command line?
2) what else was running?  Especially, what could eat up your 
connections while backup is in progress?  Bittorrent?

...Thanks,
...Ken