I have run into very serious problems after installing backintime on my system. The installation renders the system unusable and sometimes, unbootable.
I am running:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 60.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series)
System Version: AG
If I use the Discover app to install Backintime 1.5.1-1.fc41, the download and installation appear to complete. When I hit Launch in the upper right corner, I get errors and it won’t launch. When I check for it in the Application Launcher, it isn’t listed as an installed program.
Then, the real problems start.
- I can still open the Application Launcher, but nothing will run. When I click on something, the menu closes as usual, and a small icon for the app I want to run appears next to the mouse cursor. It bounces for a few seconds, and then nothing happens. I can’t run anything.
- When I click on an icon in the panel, a blue circle appears around it and spins around a few times, then nothing.
- Apps that were already open before I installed backintime still continue to function.
- After I reboot the system one way or another, then I login, the problem is still there. The system is useless.
I also tried installing bakintime from the command line as recommended by this webpage:
using these commands:
dnf copr enable mhoeher/backintime
dnf install backintime-qt4
After that, backintime actually appeared in the Application Launcher and ran. However, all of the same problems as above still occur. Also, in this case, after I reboot and choose kfedora from the grub menu, all I get is a blank screen.
I don’t know how, but installing backintime completely ruins my system. It works perfectly on my other machine running Mint:
Kernel: 6.8.0-51-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
This is a serious problem. I need backintime to make snapshot backups of my kfedora 41 system and certain directories onto usb sticks, and I don’t know enough about the command line to do it manually with rsync, especially as incremental backups using hardlinks to reduce space. Reading the man pages about rsync shows it will be yet another very time-consuming research project that will take days of dedicated work and experimentation. That’s why I chose the gui version in the first place.
Has anyone else run into all of this?
Does anyone know what on earth to do about this?