Mint Backup Tool stopped working [Solved]

[willie42]

I have an issue that I can't resolve. Its most likely a simple fix that I am not thinking of I am using LMDE 32 bit My backup tool worked last month and I went to use it today and it has stopped working. when I click on it in the menu nothing happens. I am not sure of some of the updates have effected it or not. I just don't what has happened to it. has anyone else had any issues or can help me figure out whats going on with it? help is much appreciated

[Sonsum]

try launching it from the terminal to see if it shows any error messages. Just run:

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mintbackup

Let us know what happens!

[willie42]

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willie42@linux12 ~ $ mintbackup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintBackup/mintBackup.py", line 87, in <module>
    class MessageDialog(apt.FetchProgress):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FetchProgress'

thats what I get

[Sonsum]

Hmmm. Perhaps try:

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apt-get --reinstall install mintbackup

(I'm hoping this is just a something that can be reinstalled sort of error. Haha)

[willie42]

Nope didn't work

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willie42@linux12 ~ $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install mintbackup
[sudo] password for willie42: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-kbuild-2.6.39 linux-headers-2.6.39-2-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 75.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.mgts.by/pub/linuxmint/packages/ debian/main mintbackup all 2.0.6 [75.4 kB]
Fetched 75.4 kB in 1s (70.0 kB/s)     
(Reading database ... 221747 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mintbackup 2.0.6 (using .../mintbackup_2.0.6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mintbackup ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'
Setting up mintbackup (2.0.6) ...
N: Ignoring file 'nilarimogard-webupd8-debian.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
willie42@linux12 ~ $ mintbackup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintBackup/mintBackup.py", line 87, in <module>
    class MessageDialog(apt.FetchProgress):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FetchProgress'
willie42@linux12 ~ $ 

thanks for trying I worked with it a while so if you have any other ideas I am all ears I really appreciate your help any help

[blueXrider]

sudo apt-get update && upgrade

[willie42]

Sorry BluexRider Still no work. Nice try though....if you come up with any other ideas feel free to share.

[willie42]

I would like to thank the folks that fixed the Mint Backup tool. Your assistance is much appreciate.


I am a very happy

[thorx89]

Mine still won't work. It gets stuck in some sort of infinite loop everytime I try to run a software backup.
I found I can get information about what the python script does by running:

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python -m trace --trace YOURSCRIPT.py

so I did it with the script that gets run when you fire up mintbackup.

The output doesn't really end (the infinite loop)
Here's the output of it having been running for a couple of seconds:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-tlVb ... 2&hl=en_US

If anyone understands what's going on in there, and can see what my problem is, I would be very appreciative.

No upgrade has solved this problem yet.

[willie42]

What version of Mint are you using?