"Restore to" of a snapshot: "Show full log" button does not work (does nothing)

[aryoda]

Observation

If I restore a snapshot ("local mode") on the same computer via the menu entry Restore to it finally shows this dialog:

BiT version:

Current DEV version (a95cf2e)

Reason:

backintime/qt/restoredialog.py

Line 65 in a95cf2e

showLog.clicked.connect(lambda: QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(self.logFile)))

self.logFile points to /home/<user>/.local/share/backintime/restore_.log and this file does not exist so nothing happens (without any error message!).

Can this issue be reproduced?

[emtiu]

I can't seem to reproduce this problem in VM testing with the latest dev code. Can you be more specific about the menu items/settings that you used to trigger it?

[aryoda]

Did you do a make install too before testing or did you run the test without installation from the DEV folder?

I did the latter and suspect that the restore process uses the installed backintime command (spawned as new process) while the GUI was started from my git working folder directly and this could cause the problem (and would be bad to test this without installation).

I will try to make this reproducible...

[emtiu]

I was using a make installed version, and running it from the system's /usr/bin.

[buhtz]

I am also not able to reproduce this. What makes me wonder about your screenshot is that there is not list of files that are restored. So it might be that somehow nothing was restored and that is why there is no restore_.log file.

I tried to backup an empty directory to restore it again. But BIT does not backup an empty directory. ;)