deja-dup fails with UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 46: invalid start byte

[Tom Howland]

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

deja-dup:
  Installed: 22.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 22.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 22.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

what I expected: a remote backup to be initiated
what I got: a dialog informing "Backup Failed"

The first time I ran deja-dup, it failed and I've lost the error message. I've since uninstalled it and then reinstalled. Even still, I keep getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1403, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1396, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1366, in main
    full_backup(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 491, in full_backup
    bytes_written = dummy_backup(tarblock_iter)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 197, in dummy_backup
    while tarblock_iter.next():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 507, in next
    result = self.process(self.input_iter.next(), size)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 188, in get_delta_iter
    for new_path, sig_path in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 281, in collate2iters
    for relem1 in riter1:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/selection.py", line 187, in Iterate
    log.Debug(_("Selecting %s") % subpath.name)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 46: invalid start byte

Thanks very much for your attention

Tom H

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Thank you for the report! This looks a lot like bug 989496, so I'm going to mark it as a duplicate. I'm looking into the problem.