Re: [Duplicity-talk] strange error when doing a backup

[John Covici]

Thanks for your quick response.

I get  'US-ASCII'  I wonder how to changeto unicode?

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:02:40 -0400,
Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> This is actually two levels of error.  The traceback is because Python can't 
> decode the gpg error.  The real error is in gpg itself, but we can't see it 
> because the decode error is triggering while trying to report the gpg error.
> 
> So, what is the encoding on your Mac?  You can find out what Python thinks it 
> is by doing this
> 
> $ python2
> Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 14:05:02) 
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import locale
> >>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
> 'UTF-8'
> 
> That's the first level.  After we get that fixed, we'll see the gpg error 
> message itself on the next run.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:25 AM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>  I am trying to do a backup  using duplicity 7.10 on a Mac operating
>  system 10.11.6.  I am getting the following error which I don't
>  understand what to do with:
>  After adding all the incremental backup sets, I get
>  Last full backup date: Wed May  4 17:14:16 2016
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
>      with_tempdir(main)
>    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
>      fn()
>    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
>      do_backup(action)
>    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1521, in do_backup
>      check_last_manifest(col_stats)  # not needed for full backup
>    File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1222, in check_last_manifest
>      last_backup_set.check_manifests()
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
>  line 199, in check_manifests
>      remote_manifest = self.get_remote_manifest()
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
>  line 234, in get_remote_manifest
>      manifest_buffer = self.backend.get_data(self.remote_manifest_name)
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py",
>  line 679, in get_data
>      assert not fin.close()
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/dup_temp.py",
>  line 226, in close
>      assert not self.fileobj.close()
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
>  line 259, in close
>      self.gpg_failed()
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
>  line 223, in gpg_failed
>      msg += unicode(line.strip(), locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace') + 
> u"\n"
>  LookupError: unknown encoding:
> 
>  Any ideas as to how to fix this error would be appreciated.
> 
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