After fresh installation and configuration: backup failed, reason unknown

[Pollewops]

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 1560, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 1398, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 1528, in do_backup
    incremental_backup(sig_chain)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 673, in incremental_backup
    globals.backend)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 459, in write_multivol
    (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num)))
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task
    return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously
    ret = fn(*params)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 458, in <lambda>
    vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num),
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/bin/duplicity", line 347, in put
    backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 395, in inner_retry
    % (n, e.__class__.__name__, util.uexc(e)))
  File "/snap/deja-dup/168/lib/python2.7/site-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 37: ordinal not in range(128)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Hello! Thank you for your bug report. This is a bug in duplicity that has a fix, but it has not been released yet. I’ll mark this as a dup of the duplicity report. Thanks!