[rdiff-backup-users] python errors backing up with .13.4

[Alan]

Greetings folks.  I've recently moved over to .13.4 from .12.6, and it
seems to be going just fine.  Well, until this morning when I got the
following error:

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 259, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 229, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 278, in 
Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 51, in 
Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 445, 
in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 367, 
in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
cPickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, 'H'.
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 247, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 216, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 336, 
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 298, 
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 221, 
in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem 
probably originated remotely)
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
+'/home/arcterex/backups/ufies.org/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-04-12T02:18:07-07:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at
+0x40209de0 0x404cd18c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
+'/home/arcterex/backups/ufies.org/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-04-12T02:18:07-07:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at
+0x401ea760 0x404c498c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
+'/home/arcterex/backups/ufies.org/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-04-12T02:18:07-07:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at
+0x40209e20 0x404cd0ec>> ignored

Sadly my python-fu isn't good enough to know what is going on here :(
Something to do with pickles?  Or unpickles?

Also I have had another one that doesn't seem to matter a huge amount,
but it's an error that greets me every morning regardless. 

Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
backups/arcterex.net/rdiff-backup-data
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
backups/arcterex.net/rdiff-backup-data

This error comes from backing up (as root) from my local webserver to
remote server (as non-root).  The files in question I believe are within 
my gallery (gallery.sf.net) install, which has a setup dir

d---------    2 alan     website      4096 Feb  2 15:18 setup/

The error comes in between some other info when run on the local machine
(obviously detecting the error on the remote filesystem):

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
backups/arcterex.net/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------

The backups *seem* to be ok, they verify ok, though that same error pops
up, and the gallery and gallery/setup directory with the odd permissions 
doesn't seem to exist in the rdiff-backup-data dir.

Any ideas?

Alan

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