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?
>
> 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.
>
> See http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?17851 for more on this and why
> Fedora/RedHat triggers this bug.
>
> Would you mind filing a bug report with the Python project?
>
> Andrew

OK, done:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1747858&group_id=5470&atid=105470