In the DEPEND variable's contents, this line net-misc/rsync[xattr] should be replaced by net-misc/rsync[xattr,acl] See the discussion at https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/378388 I too have experienced the bug mentioned in there. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Please, describe bug in our bugzilla too. Pasting output here, to make this bug report search-able: Console output: ---------------------------------------- INFO: Lock INFO: Include folders: ['/home/henri', '/opt/lampp'] INFO: Ignore folders: [] INFO: Last snapshots: {} INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run] INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run] begin loop INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot rsync: ACLs are not supported on this client rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1422) [client=3.0.6] WARNING: Command "rsync -aEAX -v --delete-excluded --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude="/media/WD Passport/backup/backintime" --exclude="/home/henri/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/henri/" --include="/home/" --include="/opt/lampp/" --include="/opt/" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="*.avi" --exclude="*.mkv" --include="/home/henri/**" --include="/opt/lampp/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/WD Passport/backup/backintime/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/"" returns 256 INFO: Save permissions INFO: Remove backups older than: 20070519-000000 INFO: [smart remove] There is only one snapshots, so keep it INFO: Keep min free disk space: 1024 Mb Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/share/backintime/plugins/gnomeplugin.py", line 145, in run self.notification.close() GError: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 INFO: Unlock BTW, I think it's good idea to report this issue upstream and see what they think. Probably it's good idea to check if acl are supported and use them only in such case..
Ha, and after I told that I found, that issue is already fixed upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/489380 I'm not sure what's easier now, backport fix, or update deps for this version but then, drop [xattr,acl] with version bump. In any case next version should not require anything from rsync...
Just fix the dependency for now the way I said. To be honest, this application is still quite buggy (at least on KDE). Judgeing by the number of bugs that are fixed in SVN, I'd wait for the next release. For which, of course, no USE flags will be required for rsync.
-r2 now deps on rsync[xattr,acl] thanks for the report.
