Time machine calculates changes then stops

My Time Machine backup, which was working fine until yesterday, now just says that it is calculating changes and then preparing them, and then it stops
all together.

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Jan 21 14:49:38 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
Jan 21 14:49:39 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: Backup canceled.
There were also these other messages
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.483 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.1-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.2-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.484 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.2-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.2-Patch-3-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.485 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.2-Patch-3-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.1.1-Patch-1-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.487 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.1.1-Patch-1-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.1.2-Patch-1-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.488 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.1.2-Patch-1-Intel.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-api.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.502 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-api.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-bin.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.503 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-bin.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-gui.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.504 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-gui.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-kext.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.505 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-kext.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-profiles.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.506 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-profiles.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-startup.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.506 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-startup.pkg
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro FindSystemFiles[9939]: Using system path cache.
Jan 21 14:46:57 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: 2012-01-21 14:46:57.582 FindSystemFiles[9939:907] Using system path cache.
Jan 21 14:47:17 macbookpro com.apple.backupd[9932]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:contains changes|must scan subdirs|fsevent|

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