UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)

Asked by dethlex

Hello! Déjà Dup crashes unexpectedly when trying to create backup on remote WebDav server.

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1555, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1541, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1393, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1523, in do_backup
    incremental_backup(sig_chain)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 668, in incremental_backup
    globals.backend)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 454, in write_multivol
    (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task
    return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously
    ret = fn(*params)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in <lambda>
    vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num),
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 342, in put
    backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
  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 0xd0 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)

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Vej (vej) said :
#1

Hello!

Which versions of Déjà Dup and Duplicity are you using?

This looks like a very old bug to me.

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dethlex (lexisubuntu) said :
#2

Hello, thank you for your answer! I was used version 37.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. After updating to newest version from snap problem dissapeared, thank you! For some reasons, in standart Ubuntu package manager the latest version is 37.0.