On Nov 8, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Andreas Olsson wrote:
When I upgraded my servers running Ubuntu 6.06 and Ubuntu 4.0 to use
rdiff-backup 1.2.2 I've started getting some strange warnings
regarding broken
symlinks. This is a new behavior not seen using previous version of
rdiff-backup.
Yes, in 1.2.2, I enabled support for extended attributes on symlinks
since it looks like modern systems support them.
These are the warnings I get while trying to backup broken symlinks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ rdiff-backup from/ to/
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/a'): [Errno 2] No such file or
directory
Warning: listattr('to/linkdir/rdiff-backup.tmp.2'): [Errno 2] No
such file or directory
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/c'): [Errno 2] No such file or
directory
Warning: listattr('to/linkdir/rdiff-backup.tmp.4'): [Errno 2] No
such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ rm -rf to/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ rdiff-backup --exclude-symbolic-links from/ to/
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/a'): [Errno 2] No such file or
directory
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/c'): [Errno 2] No such file or
directory
Yes, it's a warning (non-fatal).
This by the way, is the content of my from folder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ ls -l from/filedir/
total 4
-rw-rw---- 1 andreas andreas 2 2008-11-09 02:36 b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ ls -l from/linkdir/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:36 a -> ../filedir/a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:37 b -> ../filedir/b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:37 c -> ../filedir/c
These warnings only shows up if python-pyxattr is installed
Try updating your version of python-pyxattr. What *should* be
happening is that the extended attribute calls are working on the
symlink, and not the target of the symlink. Since the warning makes
sense if the later is happening (target of the symlink), I suspect a
bug in python-pyxattr or lower. (Or maybe older Ubuntu don't even
support xattr on symlink).
If updating your version of python-pyxattr does not work, it may be
that I should change the logic which leads to printing that warning.
That is, the logic which leads to printing that warning may only make
sense if the file in question is not a symlink.
Andrew
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