Re: [rdiff-backup-users] crash

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > rdiff-backup-1.0.5-2.fc7
> > fedora fc7 x86_64:
> >
> > ending back exception signed integer is greater than maximum of type
> > <type 'exceptions.OverflowError'>:
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
> > 790, in chown
> >     else: os.chown(self.path, uid, gid)
>
> Are you using 64-bit python on both sides?

Yes, both are fc7-x86_64 (python-2.5-12.fc7)
>
> Python has a bug when dealing with 64-bit UID's and the chown command.
> I'm not sure if using 64-bit python will make a difference.
>

> Would you mind filing a bug report with the Python project?
>
I wouldn't mind, but I'm not sure what to say at this point.  Do you 
understand what the issue is?