deja-dup-caja crashing, spamming syslog

[Bill Miller]

Since yesterday's updates deja-dup-caja has been constantly throwing errors making the syslog enormous. This block repeats over and over

Dec 2 10:14:38 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: ValueError: malformed node or string: b"['/home/bill', '/home/bill/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/AVI6', '/media/Win-F/pcmps', '/media/Win-E/Historical DVDs', '/media/Win-E/Office install file', '/media/Win-E/Python27', '/media/ST8-E-Drive/Scythebill']\n"
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: RuntimeError: object at 0x7f34c41c65c0 of type RenameMenu is not initialized
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: RuntimeError: object at 0x7f34c41f8500 of type FolderColorMenu is not initialized
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/share/caja-python/extensions/dejadup.py", line 156, in get_file_items
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: include_paths = self.dejadup.get_dejadup_paths('include-list')
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/share/caja-python/extensions/dejadup.py", line 70, in get_dejadup_paths
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: paths = ast.literal_eval([stdout][0]) # Convert shell dump to list
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ast.py", line 99, in literal_eval
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: return _convert(node_or_string)
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ast.py", line 98, in _convert
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: return _convert_signed_num(node)
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ast.py", line 75, in _convert_signed_num
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: return _convert_num(node)
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ast.py", line 66, in _convert_num
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: _raise_malformed_node(node)
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ast.py", line 63, in _raise_malformed_node
Dec 2 10:14:39 Enterprise org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2028]: raise ValueError(f'malformed node or string: {node!r}')

If I go to caja / preferences / extensions and untick the deja-dup extension it stops spamming the syslog

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: deja-dup-caja 0.0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-56.62~20.04.1-generic 5.15.64
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.25
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Dec 2 10:25:41 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (1679 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: deja-dup-caja
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-10-03 (425 days ago)

[Bill Miller (wbmilleriii)]

I found that this problem was caused by an update to xdg-desktop-portal. Removing this package from your system fixes it.

I submitted a bug on the true culprit here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-desktop-portal/+bug/1998680

This bug can be closed.

[Bill Miller (wbmilleriii)]

This symptom was caused by an update to a different package