Cannot back-up : "BackendException: Impossible d'initialiser le moteur : No module named repository"

[Joël Bourgault]

# Description

Since update to xubuntu 17.10, I cannot make `deja-dup` to work, getting the error displayed in attachment.

I tried several solutions, including installing `python-gi`. Maybe it's not the correction version, however I cannot find anything else that would work.

# Computer configuration

Here are the output of the requested commands:

joel@babasse-jojo:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
joel@babasse-jojo:~$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 36.3-0ubuntu0.1
duplicity 0.7.12-1ubuntu1
joel@babasse-jojo:~$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup
org.gnome.DejaDup last-restore '2016-01-02T17:11:32.732754Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic true
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic-period 7
org.gnome.DejaDup full-backup-period 90
org.gnome.DejaDup backend 'drive'
org.gnome.DejaDup last-run '2017-11-10T19:57:29.435752Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup nag-check '2017-10-31T05:25:25.542589Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup prompt-check '2012-01-29T20:31:09.190326Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup root-prompt true
org.gnome.DejaDup include-list ['/home/joel/Avatars', '/home/joel/Bureau', '/home/joel/créations', '/home/joel/Documents', '/home/joel/Dropbox', '/home/joel/Modèles']
org.gnome.DejaDup exclude-list ['/home/joel/créations/.metadata', '/home/joel/créations/eclipse/.metadata', '/home/joel/créations/android-sdk', '/home/joel/créations/AndroidStudioProjects', '/home/joel/Documents/programmation/.metadata', '/home/joel/Documents/z_archives']
org.gnome.DejaDup last-backup '2017-11-10T19:57:29.435752Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup allow-metered false
org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 0
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace username ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace container 'portable-joel'
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 id ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 bucket ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 folder 'portable-joel'
org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack authurl ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack tenant ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack username ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack container 'babasse-jojo'
org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS id ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS bucket ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS folder 'babasse-jojo'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Local folder 'babasse-jojo'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Remote uri ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.Remote folder 'babasse-jojo'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive uuid '63d178d6-8d15-4c02-af62-9f6f2590ba64'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive icon '. GThemedIcon drive-harddisk-usb drive-harddisk drive'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive folder 'deja-dup'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive name 'Joel - ext4'
org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA id ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA folder 'babasse-jojo'
org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA type ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File short-name 'Joel - ext4'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File type 'volume'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File migrated true
org.gnome.DejaDup.File name 'SAMSUNG HM501II: Joel - ext4'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File path ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File uuid '63d178d6-8d15-4c02-af62-9f6f2590ba64'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File icon '. GThemedIcon drive-harddisk-usb drive-harddisk drive'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File relpath b'deja-dup'

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Your instinct to install python-gi seems correct. It should provide "gi.repository" which is what I assume the problem is from that error message.

I thought I had actually improved the dependency detection in 17.10 to help avoid problems like this. :(

I don't have an obvious recommendation for what to do to get around this right now. But I'll think about how to test what's wrong here.

[Joël Bourgault (joel-bourgault)]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your feedback. I forgot to indicate that dejadup does not
provide anything about the bug in the command-line.

Any idea how I could investigate ? Running from python source code maybe ?

Best regards,
Joël

Le 11 févr. 2018 19:35, "Michael Terry" <email address hidden> a écrit :

> Your instinct to install python-gi seems correct. It should provide
> "gi.repository" which is what I assume the problem is from that error
> message.
>
> I thought I had actually improved the dependency detection in 17.10 to
> help avoid problems like this. :(
>
> I don't have an obvious recommendation for what to do to get around this
> right now. But I'll think about how to test what's wrong here.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747982
>
> Title:
> Cannot back-up : "BackendException: Impossible d'initialiser le moteur
> : No module named repository"
>
> Status in Déjà Dup:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> # Description
>
> Since update to xubuntu 17.10, I cannot make `deja-dup` to work,
> getting the error displayed in attachment.
>
> I tried several solutions, including installing `python-gi`. Maybe
> it's not the correction version, however I cannot find anything else
> that would work.
>
>
> # Computer configuration
>
> Here are the output of the requested commands:
>
> joel@babasse-jojo:~$ lsb_release -d
> Description: Ubuntu 17.10
> joel@babasse-jojo:~$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
> deja-dup 36.3-0ubuntu0.1
> duplicity 0.7.12-1ubuntu1
> joel@babasse-jojo:~$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup
> org.gnome.DejaDup last-restore '2016-01-02T17:11:32.732754Z'
> org.gnome.DejaDup periodic true
> org.gnome.DejaDup periodic-period 7
> org.gnome.DejaDup full-backup-period 90
> org.gnome.DejaDup backend 'drive'
> org.gnome.DejaDup last-run '2017-11-10T19:57:29.435752Z'
> org.gnome.DejaDup nag-check '2017-10-31T05:25:25.542589Z'
> org.gnome.DejaDup prompt-check '2012-01-29T20:31:09.190326Z'
> org.gnome.DejaDup root-prompt true
> org.gnome.DejaDup include-list ['/home/joel/Avatars',
> '/home/joel/Bureau', '/home/joel/créations', '/home/joel/Documents',
> '/home/joel/Dropbox', '/home/joel/Modèles']
> org.gnome.DejaDup exclude-list ['/home/joel/créations/.metadata',
> '/home/joel/créations/eclipse/.metadata', '/home/joel/créations/android-sdk',
> '/home/joel/créations/AndroidStudioProjects', '/home/joel/Documents/programmation/.metadata',
> '/home/joel/Documents/z_archives']
> org.gnome.DejaDup last-backup '2017-11-10T19:57:29.435752Z'
> org.gnome.DejaDup allow-metered false
> org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 0
> org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace username ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace container 'portable-joel'
> org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 id ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 bucket ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 folder 'portable-joel'
> org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack authurl ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack tenant ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack username ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack container 'babasse-jojo'
> org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS id ''
> org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS bucket ''
> org...

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This was a packaging error that must be fixed in 19.10 at least. Certainly it is fixed in the snap version. Closing this ticket.