Backup Failed OSError: [Errno 107] Transport endpoint is not connected: '/home/jerry/.gvfs'

[Buz Finork]

The Message it gives me when I run deja-dup:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1257, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1250, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1232, in main
    incremental_backup(sig_chain)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 479, in incremental_backup
    bytes_written = dummy_backup(tarblock_iter)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 161, in dummy_backup
    while tarblock_iter.next():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 505, in next
    result = self.process(self.input_iter.next(), size)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 187, in get_delta_iter
    for new_path, sig_path in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 265, in collate2iters
    relem1 = riter1.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/selection.py", line 174, in Iterate
    subpath, val = diryield_stack[-1].next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/selection.py", line 143, in diryield
    error_handler, Path.append, (path, filename))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/robust.py", line 37, in check_common_error
    return function(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 506, in append
    return self.__class__(self.base, self.index + (ext,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 486, in __init__
    self.setdata()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 491, in setdata
    self.stat = os.lstat(self.name)
OSError: [Errno 107] Transport endpoint is not connected: '/home/jerry/.gvfs'

I attached the /tmp/deja-dup.gconf
the software versions are:
deja-dup 16.1.1-0ubuntu1
duplicity 0.6.10-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 10.10 amd64

I had this same problem occur a couple days a go on my external hard drive at that time I reformated from ext4 to ext4. The backup worked for a few days and now it comes up with this when I want to back up.
I have purged and reinstalled with no effect.

the inti-erty of the deja-dup.log file
progname=deja-dup; RGBA=on

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Does this still happen after a reboot? This error seems to be something that others have gotten even when not using Deja Dup (by googling around). Some of them say it is very intermittent and may go away on a reboot.

[Buz Finork (m321v123m)]

yes you're right after restarting it worked.

[Alex Stapleton (alexs-prol)]

I am also getting this error, although I'm using ah SFTP end point for my backups instead.

[Anders Aagaard (aagaande)]

Getting the same thing, including when .gvfs is filtered out of the backup.

[David Yardley (dyardley)]

Googling the same error brought me to here. deja dup errors out on .gvfs filtering

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Note that ~/.gvfs is always secretly filtered by Deja Dup. So no need to manually specify it. You can see a list of such files in the help documentation.

Since this goes away on a reboot, deja-dup isn't even backing up that folder, and it seems to happen for remote servers, I'm tentatively blaming this on gvfs itself. A crash by the gvfs daemon could explain this error.