On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 01:26:17AM +0200, wrote:> Hi,
>
> let me shortly describe the background of my problem: I was using a Gentoo
box
> as a workstation and a NetBSD-1.6 box as a backup machine. Everything ran
> perfectly. Now I switched my workstation OS to FreeBSD-4.8_RELEASE.
>
> Both rsyncs are made from the ports, respectively (with Gentoo, it were the
> Ebuilds, but the same idea...). (FreeBSD port version: 2.5.6_1)
>
> Now, when I try to synchronize the backup, I get a disturbing error
message,
> something like (running -n dry-run mode):
>
> [...many lines of text...]
> deleting directory work/nvidia/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191
> deleting directory work/nvidia
> unexpected tag 94
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(315)
>
> or:
>
> [...many lines of text...]
> .thumbnails/normal/ee4752ec2125bc1faef8edd4a75d1df5.png
> .thumbnails/normal/ee55bb657904968ef3f852db22a17662.png
> Invalid file index 117440540 (count=136972)
> rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at sender.c(135)
>
> I have checked the network connection by transferring >11GB (cat xyz
|rsh
> amadillo "md5"), and I had no problems. It's simply a
cross-over cable
> between the machines, so I don't expect any switch problems, and
they're both
> x86-based.
>
> My command line looks like:
> rsync -n -e rsh -axv --delete --exclude-from $TMPF --delete-excluded
> --progress ~kjwolf/ amadillo:/pile/myhome
>
> I would have supected the FreeBSD port patches, but a quick and not very
> professional look on them didn't reveal any obvious fault...
For immediate results I would suggest rebuilding from source.
File a bug report against FreeBSD. Your description
indicates they have done something wrong.
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