[rdiff-backup-users] IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '<snip>/MAKEDEV.2004-09-16T10:15:09+02:00.missing'

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

when backing up one of my hosts, I get the following error log from
rdiff-backup:

Incrementing mirror file
janeway/mnt/home/home/mh/chroot/sid/home/mh/chroot/sid/dev/MAKEDEV
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/backup.py", line 226, in 
patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 279, 
in  __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 607, in 
fast_process
    inc = self.inc_with_checking(tf, rp, self.get_incrp(index))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 593, in 
inc_with_checking
    try: inc = increment.Increment(new, old, inc_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", line 40, 
in  Increment
    if not mirror.lstat(): incrp = makemissing(incpref)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", line 51, 
in makemissing
    incrp.touch()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 815, in 
touch
    self.conn.open(self.path, "w").close()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'janeway/rdiff-backup-data/increments/mnt/home/home/mh/chroot/sid/home/mh/chroot/sid/dev/MAKEDEV.2004-09-16T10:15:09+02:00.missing'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'janeway/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-09-20T22:28:53+02:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x4049c9e0 0x404dd46c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'janeway/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-09-20T22:28:53+02:00.data.gz', mode 
'wb' at 0x4049c6a0 0x404dbb8c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'janeway/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-09-20T22:28:53+02:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x4049ca20 0x404dd34c>>  ignored
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 227, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 352, 
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 314, 
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 230, 
in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem 
"rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem 
probably originated remotely)

I am using rdiff-backup 0.13.4 on Debian unstable. What might be going
wrong here?

Greetings
Marc

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