[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-crash: why does it crash?

[Thomas Bettler]

I run rdiff-0.12.7 on gentoo kernel 2.6.9 with librsync-0.9.6

Doing the backups I get the following error, but why:
$rdiff-backup -v5 --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude '/etc/shadow*' 
--exclude '/tmp/*' --exclude '/usr/tmp/*' --exclude '/var/tmp/*' --exclude 
'/usr/portage/distfiles/*' / /mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/
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Incrementing mirror 
file /mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/ethz.pcf
Processing changed file etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/sample.pcf
Incrementing mirror 
file 
/mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/sample.pcf
Processing changed file etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/internal.ini
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 254, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 226, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 268, in 
Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 47, in 
Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 221, in 
patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 275, 
in __call__
    if self.finish_branches(index) is None:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 227, 
in finish_branches
    to_be_finished.end_process()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 552, in 
end_process
    self.base_rp.rmdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 658, in 
rmdir
    self.conn.os.rmdir(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: 
'/mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-10-29T18:14:42+02:00.data.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x403c23a0 0x406790cc>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-10-29T18:14:42+02:00.data.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x403b7ea0 0x4067916c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/central/SAVE/debox/system/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-10-29T18:14:42+02:00.snapshot.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x403c2f20 0x4067938c>> ignored