tldr: I have found either a packaging error or a Discover error in Kubuntu 25.04 -- specifically Vorta. Can someone confirm, and help me learn where to report the bug?
BACKGROUND
I've been using flavors of Ubuntu since Warty. For various reasons I decided to make Kubuntu a daily driver on one of my systems, and installed 25.04 a few weeks ago on a decently powered machine, then copied my ancient Ubuntu filesystem over and got just about everything running, with the expected hiccups.
I have been somewhat enjoying the better integration of Discover (better than the Gnome Software thing Ubuntu ships with), however I had a problem just now that MIGHT be Kubuntu specific.
I've been backing up with Vorta since just before switching from Ubuntu. (It's new to me; I've never used it or Borg before.)
As a test, I did a few timed backups on Kubuntu and everything seemed to work OK. But I could never look in or mount the archives. When I tried, I would sometimes get a FUSE error, but I also wasn't sure it wasn't just hanging. (FUSE would lock up the directory I tried to attach to, and later attempts cause Vorta to hang. I later discovered to free up the mount directories I had to use fusermount -u ./dirname which also seems to un-hang Vorta .)
I installed borgbackup in Kubuntu and used it to restore the ginormous archive of my old hard drive onto the new SSD using the command line.
Today I decided to try again to see what's going on.
I launch Vorta. It's happily making archives to an SD card in a reader every three hours. The archives test OK.
But when I clicked on an archive and tried to look in it, I got a FUSE error. Here's the line from the vorta.log
OK so a little digging and folks are talking (years ago) about a packaging error with Ubuntu. So I open the Vorta package in Discover, and sure enough, it shows some python package dependencies that weren't installed. (In a confusing way -- made it look like they were optional, but discover didn't give me the option to install them.)
So I open Synaptic Package Manager, and it finds the Vorta package, but doesn't show it as installed.
So I select Vorta in Synaptic, and it installs the remaining packages. Here's today's entry in /var/log/apt
Vorta works better now! I can look in the archives now, and I can now restore individual files.
I should be able to mount the archives, and I cannot, but maybe I can after a reboot. I'll try to report back.
EDIT: After a reboot I still cannot mount an archive to a directory in my home directory. Still get a "FUSE mount failed" error.
Where do I report the bug(s)?
P.S.: I'm having other Kubuntu bugs, but I'm looking at only this one now
BACKGROUND
I've been using flavors of Ubuntu since Warty. For various reasons I decided to make Kubuntu a daily driver on one of my systems, and installed 25.04 a few weeks ago on a decently powered machine, then copied my ancient Ubuntu filesystem over and got just about everything running, with the expected hiccups.
I have been somewhat enjoying the better integration of Discover (better than the Gnome Software thing Ubuntu ships with), however I had a problem just now that MIGHT be Kubuntu specific.
I've been backing up with Vorta since just before switching from Ubuntu. (It's new to me; I've never used it or Borg before.)
As a test, I did a few timed backups on Kubuntu and everything seemed to work OK. But I could never look in or mount the archives. When I tried, I would sometimes get a FUSE error, but I also wasn't sure it wasn't just hanging. (FUSE would lock up the directory I tried to attach to, and later attempts cause Vorta to hang. I later discovered to free up the mount directories I had to use fusermount -u ./dirname which also seems to un-hang Vorta .)
I installed borgbackup in Kubuntu and used it to restore the ginormous archive of my old hard drive onto the new SSD using the command line.
Today I decided to try again to see what's going on.
I launch Vorta. It's happily making archives to an SD card in a reader every three hours. The archives test OK.
But when I clicked on an archive and tried to look in it, I got a FUSE error. Here's the line from the vorta.log
Code:
vorta.borg.borg_job - ERROR - Runtime Error: FUSE mount failed
So I open Synaptic Package Manager, and it finds the Vorta package, but doesn't show it as installed.
So I select Vorta in Synaptic, and it installs the remaining packages. Here's today's entry in /var/log/apt
Code:
Start-Date: 2025-09-16 12:23:13 Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic Requested-By: twt (1000) Install: vorta:amd64 (0.10.3-1), python3-peewee:amd64 (3.17.7+dfsg-1build2, automatic), python3-jeepney:amd64 (0.8.0-4, automatic), python3-platformdirs:amd64 (4.3.6-1, automatic), python3-psycopg2:amd64 (2.9.10-1build1, automatic), python3-mysqldb:amd64 (1.4.6-2build6, automatic), python3-secretstorage:amd64 (3.3.3-3, automatic) End-Date: 2025-09-16 12:23:16
Vorta works better now! I can look in the archives now, and I can now restore individual files.
I should be able to mount the archives, and I cannot, but maybe I can after a reboot. I'll try to report back.
EDIT: After a reboot I still cannot mount an archive to a directory in my home directory. Still get a "FUSE mount failed" error.
Where do I report the bug(s)?
P.S.: I'm having other Kubuntu bugs, but I'm looking at only this one now
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