rsync - Jan 2005 - "connection unexpectedly closed" error

Hi,

I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I can't find it.

We just set up a new server with Fedora Core 2 and I'm trying to set up 
an rsync to it.  I've had this working to a Debian machine, so I'm 
almost sure my config is rsync config is good.

I'm running rsync 2.6.2-1 in daemon mode on the server with the 
following config file:

log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
hosts allow = 172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[validation]
         path = /var/net/validation
         uid = root
         gid = root
         read only = no
         list = false
         auth users = sync

 From the client, also Fedora Core 2, also running 2.6.2-1 I'm doing the 
following:

rsync -avH --delete-excluded --delete \
       --password-file=/etc/rsyncval.pwd \
       FOCUS sync@192.168.13.252::validation

The output is as follows:

  building file list ... done
  rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (69 bytes read so far)
  rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

I don't think it is a failed authorization because it would tell me that 
in the log file on the server.  It seems to be getting the connection, 
building a list of files to transfer, but then dies when it actually 
starts to do anything.

I'd appreciate any help debugging this - I've been looking at it for 
several hours now.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I can't find it.

We just set up a new server with Fedora Core 2 and I'm trying to set up
an rsync to it.  I've had this working to a Debian machine, so I'm
almost sure my config is rsync config is good.

I'm running rsync 2.6.2-1 in daemon mode on the server with the
following config file:

log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
hosts allow = 172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[validation]
          path = /var/net/validation
          uid = root
          gid = root
          read only = no
          list = false
          auth users = sync

  From the client, also Fedora Core 2, also running 2.6.2-1 I'm doing the
following:

rsync -avH --delete-excluded --delete \
        --password-file=/etc/rsyncval.pwd \
        FOCUS sync at 192.168.13.252::validation

The output is as follows:

   building file list ... done
   rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (69 bytes read so far)
   rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

I don't think it is a failed authorization because it would tell me that
in the log file on the server.  It seems to be getting the connection,
building a list of files to transfer, but then dies when it actually
starts to do anything.

I'd appreciate any help debugging this - I've been looking at it for
several hours now.

Thanks
-- 
David L. Harfst                     Computerized Medical Systems
Senior Systems Engineer             St. Louis, Missouri
mailto:harfst@cms-stl.com           http://www.cms-stl.com

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:34:02PM -0600, David L. Harfst
wrote:
>   building file list ... done
>   rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (69 bytes read so far)
It would probably help to upgrade the server to 2.6.3, since 2.6.2 did
not pass back most errors to the client.  Also, a 2.6.3 client is a
little better at grabbing a remote error message when the server dies,
so upgrading the local side too might help you to debug the problem.  I
assume you looked for errors in the rsync log file?  You might also want
to try setting "ulimit -c unlimited" and then running starting the
rsync
daemon temporarily like this:  "rsync --daemon --no-detach".  After
running the failing client command, kill the daemon using Ctrl-C and
check if it core dumped.  That will at least let you figure out if the
problem is one of the program crashing or not.  If not, you should
hopefully be able to find an error message telling you what went wrong.

..wayne..