New submission from Denis Martinez <deuns.marti...@gmail.com>: I have written a server backup script (file attached) which archives a list of directories with tarfile and uploads the file to FTP. Today, the script hanged, with an exception:
Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "./backup.py", line 48, in run tar.add(file_or_directory, recursive=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1981, in add self.add(os.path.join(name, f), os.path.join(arcname, f), recursive, exclude) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1965, in add tarinfo = self.gettarinfo(name, arcname) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1834, in gettarinfo statres = os.lstat(name) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/srv/myfile.htdigest' What I did here is that I removed the htdigest file while the tarfile was archiving /srv. I haven't managed to reproduce the bug a second time. It seems normal that tarfile shouldn't fail is this case; maybe it needs some exception checking around the stat/lstat calls. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: backup2.py messages: 93845 nosy: denis severity: normal status: open title: tarfile: OSError with TarFile.add(..., recursive=True) about non-existing file type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15098/backup2.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7101> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com