Duplicity crashes when called -- UnicodeDecodeError

[PhilippeSeidel]

Hi,

Since some time ago, duplicity, called automatically by ubuntu's deja-dup, crashes upon each startup. I cannot even change the settings. Some online posts suggested deleting the backup, which I did. There are some corrupted files I could not delete (with non-unicode characters in their names). I have seen that there was a bug with unicode decoding in an earlier version, but I am running the updated one. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/1311176)

Here's the output of duplicity:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1488, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1337, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1366, in do_backup
    sync_archive(decrypt)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1100, in sync_archive
    remote_metafiles, ignored, rem_needpass = get_metafiles(remlist)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 992, in get_metafiles
    pr = file_naming.parse(fn)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 389, in parse
    pr = check_full()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 308, in check_full
    t = str2time((m1 or m2).group("time"), short)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 281, in str2time
    t = dup_time.genstrtotime(timestr.upper())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 278, in genstrtotime
    return override_curtime - intstringtoseconds(timestr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 190, in intstringtoseconds
    error()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 181, in error
    raise TimeException(bad_interval_string % interval_string)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xee in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

Duplicity version: 0.6.23-1ubuntu5
Deja-dup version: 32.0-0ubuntu1
Python version: 32.0-0ubuntu1
OS version: ubuntu 14.10

Sorry I do not know how to extract the exact command line deja-dup uses to call duplicity.

Philippe

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: duplicity 0.6.23-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Dec 10 21:05:07 2014
SourcePackage: duplicity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-14 (26 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joachim R. (jro)]

Solved for me in Ubuntu 19.04, I guess the dist-upragde ugraded duplicity with the fixed upstream version.