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-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG3
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/log.py7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index 533dd5c..a5eaa30 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
New in v1.1.12 (????/??/??)
---------------------------
+Do something sensible if we get an IOError while trying to appropriately
+log another exception. (Andrew Ferguson)
+
Handle exception when get permission denied on a file while trying
to establish case sensitivity on read-only side. (Andrew Ferguson)
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/log.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/log.py
index 7b57a6f..35f91b0 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/log.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/log.py
@@ -186,7 +186,12 @@ class Logger:
logging_func = self.log_to_term
if verbosity >= self.term_verbosity: return
- logging_func(self.exception_to_string(), verbosity)
+ exception_string = self.exception_to_string()
+ try:
+ logging_func(exception_string, verbosity)
+ except IOError:
+ print "IOError while trying to log exception!"
+ print exception_string
Log = Logger()