Duplicati is silently exiting with abnormal code - MacOS

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I’ve noticed several times that the Duplicati icon in the menu had disappeared so I went hunting and found the following message in the system log

Jan 4 12:55:11 Davids-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.duplicati.app.8196[25682]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255

Any idea how to track this down (and fix)?

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What’s the last thing before the abnormal exit time in the Duplicati logs?

Are you running just the tray icon or the service (to which the tray icon should be connecting)?

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Where is the log for Duplicati on a Mac? As I mentioned, the only thing I found in the system log was the abnormal termination

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If you use the LaunchDaemon plist I posted in the other thread (“how to run with root privileges on a Mac”) to run the Duplicati server, you would get logging in /Library/Logs. Changing the log level can be done in the plist in the --log-level parameter.

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I believe @gctwnl as referring to this post:

And he is correct that --log-level can be used to specific the detail of the text log that is written to when using --log-file (without which most log info is written to the .sqlite database files).