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ahart01 (ahart01) wrote : Re: [Bug 569418] Re: deja-dup fails on backup to external drive with g_file_get_uri: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

Thank you Pablo. Lucid fix works.

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Pablo Estigarribia <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Pablo Estigarribia <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 569418] Re: deja-dup fails on backup to external drive with g_file_get_uri: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7:13 AM

In comment before I typed wrong, sorry version installed from lucid-
proposed is 14.1.

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deja-dup fails on backup to external drive with g_file_get_uri: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
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Status in Déjà Dup: Fix Released
Status in The "G" Library - GLib: New
Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “deja-dup” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed

Bug description:
Bug Description:

Backing up to an external drive is broken. I use an external USB-harddisk for backups and deja-dup is failing on getting the URI of the backup-target (g_file_get_uri). That's why the duplicity command line is not complete (see attached console output with stout, sterr, DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1).

If I change the backup target to a local folder everything works!

1. there is no log file in /tmp because of the error

2. --> attached files

3. deja-dup    14.0.3-0ubuntu1
    duplicity    0.6.08b-0ubuntu2

4. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

SRU Justification:

It is important to resolve this issue in a SRU due to Deja-Dup being a featured application in the Ubuntu Software Center. By prominently featuring Deja-Dup, it has become the de facto desktop backup solution for Ubuntu users. This bug prevents users from backing up to an external hard drive, probably the primary use case.

#### Work-around ####

Changing the '/apps/deja-dup/file/type' gconf setting from 'volume' to 'normal' solves the problem. This can be done by browsing to that setting with 'gconf-editor' or with the following command in the terminal:

gconftool -s '/apps/deja-dup/file/type' --type string normal

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