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Bug#1116567: backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message: ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py

From	c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1116567: backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message: ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py
Date	2025-10-13 09:10 +0200
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Hello Julian,
thank you for your feedback.

Am 12.10.2025 16:43 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
> (Sorry, I only just spotted this - you forgot to copy me in to your
> emails and I'm not subscribed to this bug report.)

I am confused. Why are you not subscribed but you are the reporter? 
Doesn't the system subscribe you automatically?
I don't forgot to CC you directly because I always assume that the 
reporter is subcribed.

> Here's the result of running it with --debug:

Mhm... I still have no hot trail on this.

Can you please check the syslog? It might be that the systrayicon-thing 
does log something that does not appear on stdout/stderr.

> does seem to be related to this DISPLAY setting.  However, if I ssh to
> the machine without using -X, so DISPLAY is unset, and try running
> "backintime backup" as this regular user, it works fine too.  So there
> appears to be some subtle combination of DISPLAY and running as root
> going on.

I also ssh'ed as a regular user and than did "sudo su" and started 
"backintime backup --debug" (DISPLAY is not set).
No hanging. Can you give me more details about your setup? There is no X 
server running at all? I'll have to setup a test VM to check this case.

Regards,
Christian

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Bug#1116567: backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message: ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> - 2025-09-28 18:20 +0200
  Bug#1116567:  c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-09-29 08:40 +0200
  Bug#1116567: #1116567 c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-09-29 10:20 +0200
    Bug#1116567: backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message: ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> - 2025-10-12 16:50 +0200
      Bug#1116567: backintime backup: hangs and only continues on ctrl-C with message: ERROR: Failed to load plugin systrayiconplugin.py c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-10-13 09:10 +0200
  Bug#1116567: 1116567 c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-11-12 12:00 +0100

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