[Kmymoney-devel] odd backup error

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Saturday 18 April 2015 08:37:48 Jack wrote:

> On 2015.04.18 02:10, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 April 2015 11:52:10 Jack wrote:
> >> I just tried to backup my file and got an error about failure to
> >> mount the directory.  (Of course I didn't copy the exact
> >> wording....)  The only problem is that the directory is just a
> >> folder two levels below my home directory, and doesn't need
> >> mounting, and I did not check the box about needing mounting, and
> >> backup has worked fine for years.  This is the second time this has
> >> happened, and simply restarting KMM fixed the problem both times.  I
> >> have not otherwise noticed anything strange about files or
> >> partitions or mounts.  If it happens again, are there any specific
> >> things I can check to try and figure out the cause?
> > 
> > That is strange. In case the mount option is unchecked, a simple
> > 'echo' replaces the mount command. This is just so that the next step
> > in the process can be triggered by the successful finish of a command
> > (mount or echo in this case). The scenario you describe would happen,
> > when the 'echo' command returns an exit code other than 0 (why should
> > it) or the KProcess exitStatus differs from QProcess::NormalExit. I
> > can't image why either of the two should happen.
> 
> I think that gave me the answer, but I won't have time to test until
> this evening.  For years, I only ran KMM started from the start menu or
> an icon.  Recently, however, I've left those methods to start the
> distro installed version, and have a git version installed in a
> different location which I have to start with a script, from command
> line.  I suspect if I close that console, then the echo will fail
> because KMMs stdout has gone away.
> 
> I'll confirm this after I test later.

That would be fine. In that case, we need to use a different command or 
mechanism to solve the problem.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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