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Problem with 1.0.26 on Raring

Asked by Martin Fisher

Following an upgrade to 1.0.26 on Ubuntu raring BiT does not appear to run (if I start it the GUI flashes and then disappears). backintime -b in a terminal produces the output below. Is this a bug or a problem with my system? Any advice would be gratefull appreciated.

Thanks, Martin

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Version: 1.0.26

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INFO: Lock
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 388, in <module>
    start_app()
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 171, in start_app
    take_snapshot( cfg, True )
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 53, in take_snapshot
    snapshots.Snapshots( cfg ).take_snapshot( force )
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/snapshots.py", line 887, in take_snapshot
    hash_id = mount.Mount(cfg = self.config).mount()
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/mount.py", line 54, in __init__
    running = pw_cache.status()
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/password.py", line 209, in status
    pid = int(pf.read().strip())
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Looks like there is some text in .local/share/backintime/password_cache/PID that doesn't belong in there (normally there should only be one integer e.g. 1234).
Can you please post the output of 'cat .local/share/backintime/password_cache/PID' so I can investigate who wrote in there?
After that please make sure no 'backintime --pw-cache' instance is running anymore with 'ps ax | grep [b]ackintime' and remove .local/share/backintime/password_cache/PID. This should fix it for now.

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Martin Fisher (yusuf-martin) said : 		#2

Many thanks Germar.

.local/share/backintime/password_cache/PID is blank but your solution has fixed the problem - I am very grateful!

Yours, Martin

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Martin Fisher (yusuf-martin) said : 		#3

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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