Re: [Duplicity-talk] acd+acdcli backend hangs

[henimp]

> I've just installed duplicity 0.7.07.1 with hopes of using Amazon Cloud
> Drive as the backend.
>
> I completed the setup as described in the documentation of acd_cli and it
> seems operational.
>
> When using duplicity, however, once it enters the acdcli backend and calls
> sync, it simply hangs.
>
> I don't know too much python, but took a look at the backend:
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/acdclibackend.py
>
> I added the -v flag to the sync command on line 60 and placed a log.Info()
> test output before and after this line, but it still hangs with no output
> (beyond my "Calling sync" info output) and the acd_cli log file also
> silent:
>
> log.Info("Calling sync")
> self.subprocess_popen(self.acd_cmd + " -v sync")
> log.Info("Finished sync")
>
> I ran acd_cli sync manually on the command line and it succeeds normally,
> so why does it hang inside of duplicity? Is there a way to make python say
> more what's going on when it goes to self.subprocess_popen()?

The problem was a misspelled environment variable name - I am using  
ACD_CLI_CACHE_PATH to set a custom cache location for acd_cli. Once  
fixed, the backend no longer hangs.


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