Re: [Duplicity-talk] Error when running as a daily job

[Michael Johnson]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Michael Johnson wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Tom Finnigan wrote:
>
> > I have a duplicity backup set up to run nightly.
> > I'm using OSX 10.4, Python 2.3.5, and duplicity built from source  
> > 0.4.2.
> >
> > My problem is that when I su to root and run the script from a
> > terminal, everything works fine.
> > However, it doesn't run at night.  Checking my logs, here is the  
> > stack trace:
>
> You have the exact problem I'm seeing on my RHEL boxes.  I have to  
> run this stuff by hand for now until it gets fixed.  Sadly, the  
> developer says he doesn't know why the problem is there.  You can  
> try this patch:
>
> <http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/duplicity/duplicity/ 
> collections.py? 
> root=duplicity&r1=1.10&r2=1.11&makepatch=1&diff_format=u>
>
> It didn't work for me and I still run them by hand.  I really need  
> a fix for this soon.  I'm looking for a different solution in the  
> mean time.

It was suggested to me that I try the CVS version of the  
application.  I finally got around to doing that, and now have this  
problem:

Fatal Error: Neither remote nor local manifest readable.

Again, when I run this by hand, it works fine using the very same  
binary (CVS).

-Michael

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