Error when destination path is changed

[Wolfgang Jansen]

Hello,

when trying to start sbackup the following error message is issued:

coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1103, in on_dest1_toggled
    self.on_dest_localpath_selection_changed()
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1542, in on_dest_localpath_selection_changed
    if (os.path.isdir(_target) and os.access(_target, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 41, in isdir
    st = os.stat(s)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

The message also asks me to send the bug report: done here,
and to try sbackup again. Then the program starts and runs as expected.

With regrads
WJ

PS: platform info
- Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- sbackup 0.11.4

This is the new Ubuntu 13.04. Well, it is rather new, nevertheless,
sbackup already worked with the new version.
I installed sbackup from the ppa some months ago.
I do not know whether the new ubuntu installation
did upgrade sbackup (I did not).

[Giacomo (poderi1980)]

I have the same problem. I receive the following message in the error window:

"coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1103, in on_dest1_toggled
    self.on_dest_localpath_selection_changed()
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1542, in on_dest_localpath_selection_changed
    if (os.path.isdir(_target) and os.access(_target, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 41, in isdir
    st = os.stat(s)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found"

I run on: Linux vulcan 3.8.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:35:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I upgraded from 12.10 and never used sbackup after the upgrade.

[Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. I'll look into it. At first sight it looks like some new resp. changed behaviour due to the Python version shipped with Ubuntu 13.04.

[Wolfgang Jansen (wo-jansen)]

Sorry, the bug fix does not work either:
The error window is shown again when I want to choose a non-standard destination.
After dismissing the error window I am able to enter the destination
(entry "Use custom local backup directory") but the setting is ignored
and the backup is stored to the standard destination (what I wanted to avoid).

WJ

[Omk (ossi-viljakainen)]

Just installed sbackup on my new laptop, and got this same error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1103, in on_dest1_toggled
    self.on_dest_localpath_selection_changed()
  File "/usr/share/sbackup/sbackup/ui/configgui.py", line 1542, in on_dest_localpath_selection_changed
    if (os.path.isdir(_target) and os.access(_target, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 41, in isdir
    st = os.stat(s)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

[ragnaroknroll (ragnaroknroll)]

Same error here using Linux Mint 15

[robert leleu (robert-jean-leleu)]

Nice

… but I don't know how to install this 11.6 on my Mint15 (Ubuntu 13.04)

[Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz)]

Hi Robert,
you should be able to install from our PPA. You can find it here: https://launchpad.net/~sbackup-team/+archive/stable

Best regards.

[robert leleu (robert-jean-leleu)]

thanks, updated.
The old nss PPA stood in my PPA list

[JLuc (jluc-q)]

I'm using Simple Backup Suite 0.11.4 on ubuntu 13.10 and i have same issue when wanting to choose the save destination folder

[robert leleu (robert-jean-leleu)]

just install the PPA to be found in https://launchpad.net/~sbackup-team/+archive/stable (see #7)

[Marc Johannot (marc-johannot-b)]

Thank you very much, SBackup just works fine now !

Best regards,

Marc

Le 08. 02. 14 10:27, robert leleu a écrit :
> just install the PPA to be found in https://launchpad.net/~sbackup-
> team/+archive/stable (see #7)
>

[Jose Trindade (jcftrindade)]

Works fine now. Thanks

[Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz)]

Summary note:

this affects sbackup 0.11.4 and 0.11.5. Latest is sbackup 0.11.6 (unaffected).

On Ubuntu 13.10 please install latest version from PPA.
On Ubuntu 14.04 just install from repositories (latest is included).

[Franz Hartwig (franz-hartwig)]

Thank you. Just installed 0.11.6, seems to work. I did not have installed the ppa. I don't know why. Now I caught it up ...

Franz

[Sylvain Félix (sylv1-felix)]

Ok, thank you for your reponse

Sylvain
Le 12. 04. 14 16:03, Jean-Peer Lorenz a écrit :
> Summary note:
>
> this affects sbackup 0.11.4 and 0.11.5. Latest is sbackup 0.11.6
> (unaffected).
>
> On Ubuntu 13.10 please install latest version from PPA.
> On Ubuntu 14.04 just install from repositories (latest is included).
>