Created attachment 515401 [details]
Debugging info from fwbackups run seeking non-existent file: <fdopen>.

Description of problem:

I am trying to back up key directories in the Fedora 15 file system.  The /home directory is excluded (I use a separate backup set for that).  I also exclude /dev, /media, /mnt, /proc, /run, and /tmp.  The backup is saved to the directory /media/Linux Backup/Fedora, which is a directory residing on an ext4 partition on an external hard drive.  The folders /sys/module and /lib/udev/devices, as well as the file /selinux/null, are excluded explicitly under the advanced options tab.  (These seem to be excluded twice in the rsync command generated by fwbackups, for some reason.)

I am doing a direct copy of the files and folders, full backups every time (incremental not selected).  All backup options are selected except 'Follow links'.

The backup completes, then a file with the list of packages is written to /tmp in the backup destination folder, as expected, since the 'Print installed packages to a text file' option was selected.

However, after this is done, fwbackups tries to read the non-existent file in <fdopen> in the directory "/media/Linux Backup".  At least, in this instance, it looked in that directory for <fdopen>.  When running it at other times, it has looked for this "file" in other directories.  I think it looks for the file in whatever directory I happened to be in when I invoked the 'fwbackups' command as superuser (or in /root if it was running automatically as a cron job).

After failing to find the file <fdopen>, fwbackups exits with an error message.  However, fwbackups did seem to back up the data successfully, so I consider the severity to be low.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15, fwbackups 1.43.4


How reproducible:
Seems to happen consistently.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set fwbackups to back up file system.
2.  Select 'Direct copy of the files and folders' with 'Backups are incremental' de-selected.
3.  Select all backup options except 'Follow links'.
4.  Run backup set manually, or let run as a automatically at a chosen time.
  

Actual results:

fwbackups should back up everything, write a text file containing the list of packages, and exit normally.


Expected results:

fwbackups backs up everything, writes a text file containing the list of packages, but tries to read a non-existent file called "<fdopen>", then exits with an error.


Additional info:

See file attachment for debugging info (from fwbackups --verbose run).