I can also confirm that this is still happening with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS duplicity-backup.sh v1.6.0 duplicity 0.7.19
lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial -------[ Program versions ]------- duplicity-backup.sh v1.6.0 duplicity 0.7.19 ---------------------------------- LFTP version is 4.6.3a Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1581, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1567, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1419, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1441, in do_backup action).set_values() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 684, in set_values backend_filename_list = self.backend.list() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 395, in inner_retry % (n, e.__class__.__name__, util.uexc(e))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc return ufn(unicode(e).encode('utf-8')) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 301: ordinal not in range(128) ----------------[ Duplicity Cleanup ]---------------- LFTP version is 4.6.3a Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1581, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1567, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1419, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1441, in do_backup action).set_values() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 684, in set_values backend_filename_list = self.backend.list() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 395, in inner_retry % (n, e.__class__.__name__, util.uexc(e))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc return ufn(unicode(e).encode('utf-8')) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 301: ordinal not in range(128) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770929 Title: Duplicity fails with UnicodeDecodeError in uexc function To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1770929/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs