backintime fails to start with module 'dbus' has no attribute 'SystemBus' error

[average6502]

$ backintime

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.24

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/tools.py", line 1212, in __init__
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
AttributeError: module 'dbus' has no attribute 'SystemBus'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 874, in <module>
start_app()
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 463, in start_app
return getConfig(args, False)
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 584, in getConfig
cfg = config.Config(args.config)
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/config.py", line 272, in __init__
self.setupUdev = tools.SetupUdev()
File "/usr/share/backintime/common/tools.py", line 1215, in __init__
except dbus.exceptions.DBusException as e:
AttributeError: module 'dbus' has no attribute 'exceptions'




I've tried purging and reinstalling, and installing from source. Same errors.


I also use conda, but I removed that from the path temporarily. If I have that in my path, then I get a ModuleNotFoundErrro:No module named 'dbus'.


This used to work just fine. I don't know why it's failing now.




print(dbus.__file__) yields /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/dbus/__init__.py

which matches the version of python I'm using. print(sys.version) in backintim.py yields 3.5.2.

I don't know why this isn't working. Any thoughts?

[thomi_ch]

Hey

i'm getting same error...
check this, i opened a issue.. maybe they can help, solve it..
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/963

thomi