Bug#398757: konserve: fails to make backups

2006-11-15 Thread Eddy Petrișor
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Subject: konserve: fails to make backups
Package: konserve
Version: 0.10.3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hello,

I have found that konserve chokes if the backup URL is an existant
directory. Also, backups in a file does not work, generating a always a
2 bytes file. It claims during the wizard creation that it is capable of
doing backups in directories, thus creating a file for each
snapshot/backup (whatever) (as opposed to overwriting the file, is the
backup URL is a file).

The error is saying that it failed because the backup URL exists.

Steps to reproduce:
- - start the app from the menu from kde
- - create a backup task of a directory (I chose ~/tmp/_eraseme just to
  test the app) via the wizard; select an existing directory (or
  create a new one) as the backup URL
- - start a backup task by hand via the systray icon/backup task_name

After a while there should be two error messages one saying the backup
failed and the second complaing about the existing directory.

- - change the backup URL to an existing file (or a non-existing one) in
  the aforementioned directory and force backup creation now like in the
  previous step

After a while the disk activity will stop, but the backup URL file will
be of size 2.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages konserve depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-3 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl12.2.41-1  Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2   2.3.17-1  Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1   2.4.32-1  Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2  1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6  2.3.6.ds1-8   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6   2.2.1-5   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgamin0 [libfam0]0.1.7-4   Client library for the gamin file
ii  libgcc11:4.1.1-17GCC support library
hi  libice61:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
hi  libidn11   0.6.5-1   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62  6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt  3:3.3.7-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
hi  libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6 4.1.1-17  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6   2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor11.1.7-4   X cursor management library
hi  libxext6   1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft22.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1   1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
hi  libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender11:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
hi  zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13compression library - runtime

konserve recommends no packages.

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Bug#398757: konserve: fails to make backups

2006-11-15 Thread Alejandro Exojo
package konserve
tags 398757 unreproducible
severity 398757 normal
thanks

 Steps to reproduce:
 - start the app from the menu from kde
 - create a backup task of a directory (I chose ~/tmp/_eraseme just to
   test the app) via the wizard; select an existing directory (or
   create a new one) as the backup URL
 - start a backup task by hand via the systray icon/backup task_name

 After a while there should be two error messages one saying the backup
 failed and the second complaing about the existing directory.

 - change the backup URL to an existing file (or a non-existing one) in
   the aforementioned directory and force backup creation now like in the
   previous step

I'm very sorry Eddy, but I can't reproduce at all your bug. I have konserve 
doing backups just as you say, in a directory, and it works for me (and I 
suppose that it also works for the 3 o 4 people that uploaded the package 
this years). I've also created a backup profile following all your steps, and 
works here.

Can you please provide more info? Do you have free space in your hard disk? Do 
you have read permissions in the directory that you chose as origin? Do you 
have write permissions in the destination directory?

Thanks.

PS: Maybe you can also try to reinstall the package, or run debsums against 
it.
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