Back In Time

WARNING: import keyring failed

Asked by David Niergarth

This started happening after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04:

    % sudo backintime
    WARNING: import keyring failed

    Back In Time
    Version: 1.0.34

    Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

It happens whether I use sudo or not. The application never launches. Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks,

--David

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Debian/Ubuntu package is missing some dependencies. I already reported this here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735122

Please run 'sudo apt-get install python-keyring python-gnomekeyring' to install them manually.

And please run BIT with gksu instead of sudo. Otherwise you'll mess up permissions of your users config because sudo doesn't change HOME environ to /root while gksu does.

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David Niergarth (jdnier) said : 		#2

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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David Niergarth (jdnier) said : 		#3

Thanks. I normally use the "Back In Time (root)" application icon that gets installed but couldn't see what was failing. I appreciate the gksu explanation. Ubuntu 14.04 does not install gksu by default, so I had to add that to the apt-get list.