Print more helpful error messages when the remote command cannot be started

on Windows. Fix --test-server option when used with remote Windows clients.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@1011 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index c35b4a0..3673e88 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 New in v1.3.1 (????/??/??)
 ---------------------------
 
+Print more helpful error messages when the remote command cannot be started
+on Windows. Thanks to Dominic for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
+
+Fix --test-server option when used with remote Windows clients. Thanks to
+Thanos Diacakis for testing. (Andrew Ferguson)
+
 Fix --override-chars-to-quote option. (Andrew Ferguson)
 
 Fix typo in robust.py which broke error reporting. Closes Savannah bug #25255.
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py
index 465fcb3..d4e1a59 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py
@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ def parse_file_desc(file_desc):
 
 def fill_schema(host_info):
 	"""Fills host_info into the schema and returns remote command"""
-	return __cmd_schema % host_info
+	try:
+		return __cmd_schema % host_info
+	except TypeError:
+		Log.FatalError("Invalid remote schema:\n\n%s\n" % __cmd_schema)
 
 def init_connection(remote_cmd):
 	"""Run remote_cmd, register connection, and then return it
@@ -134,10 +137,13 @@ def init_connection(remote_cmd):
 	Log("Executing " + remote_cmd, 4)
 	if os.name == "nt":
 		import subprocess
-		process = subprocess.Popen(remote_cmd, shell=False, bufsize=0,
+		try:
+			process = subprocess.Popen(remote_cmd, shell=False, bufsize=0,
 								stdin=subprocess.PIPE, 
 								stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-		(stdin, stdout) = (process.stdin, process.stdout)
+			(stdin, stdout) = (process.stdin, process.stdout)
+		except OSError:
+			(stdin, stdout) = (None, None)
 	else:
 		stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
 	conn_number = len(Globals.connections)
@@ -152,7 +158,7 @@ def init_connection(remote_cmd):
 def check_connection_version(conn, remote_cmd):
 	"""Log warning if connection has different version"""
 	try: remote_version = conn.Globals.get('version')
-	except connection.ConnectionReadError, exception:
+	except connection.ConnectionError, exception:
 		Log.FatalError("""%s
 
 Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing
@@ -247,7 +253,7 @@ def test_connection(conn_number):
 	conn = Globals.connections[conn_number]
 	try:
 		assert conn.Globals.get('current_time') is None
-		assert type(conn.os.getuid()) is int
+		assert type(conn.os.listdir('.')) is list
 		version = conn.Globals.get('version')
 	except:
 		sys.stderr.write("Server tests failed\n")
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/connection.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/connection.py
index 2fbe8ea..7799585 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/connection.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/connection.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class LowLevelPipeConnection(Connection):
 							   C.long2str(long(len(data))))
 			self.outpipe.write(data)
 			self.outpipe.flush()
-		except IOError: raise ConnectionWriteError()
+		except (IOError, AttributeError): raise ConnectionWriteError()
 
 	def _read(self, length):
 		"""Read length bytes from inpipe, returning result"""