Comment 1 for bug 489385

Hello Jan. I had the same symptoms using Sidux and KDE4 (441628). I
installed backintime-gnome (yeh it pulled in a bunch of other gnome
packages) but it seems to work just fine. For your info.

Jan Schnackenberg wrote:
> <pre wrap>Public bug reported:
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> Using Kubuntu 9.10 and the le-web repository. Installed versions
> (backintime-common and backintime-kde) are 0.9.26-3.
>
> If I start backintime from the commandline, the KDE4-frontend comes up.
> Clicking the "Backup"-Icon starts the backup-process which will work
> correctly.
>
> I have configured a daily backup-schedule. "crontab -l" gives:
>
> @daily nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job &gt;/dev/null
> 2&gt;&amp;1
>
> Unfortunately this does _not_ seem to work. The backup-process starts,
> correctly, every midnight, but it will hang. In the notification area
> the icon will be "unclickable" but show a tooltip stating that it's
> comparing the last backup. It will hang there for several days if not
> killed manually (using htop, oder whatever).
>
> ** Affects: backintime
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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