rsync - Apr 2009 - Unable to transfer between win32 (interix) and FreeBSD

While transfering files from a win32 host here running
interix aka SFU it keeps constantly failing with various
errors see below.

Both ends are running 3.0.5 on the same network. Also
the transfer speeds are really slow, has anyone had
this before and is there anything we can do to
investigate the issue?


receiving incremental file list
content/misc/elbonio/
content/misc/elbonio/clickfire.zip
    16777216  11%  674.77kB/s    0:03:11
unexpected tag -96 [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1134)
[receiver=3.0.5]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9238 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600)
[generator=3.0.5]
Retrying...
receiving incremental file list
content/misc/elbonio/
content/misc/elbonio/clickfire.zip
     9764864   6%  671.94kB/s    0:03:22
unexpected tag -64 [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1134)
[receiver=3.0.5]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9238 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600)
[generator=3.0.5]
Retrying...
receiving incremental file list
content/misc/elbonio/
content/misc/elbonio/clickfire.zip
    53313536  36%  674.68kB/s    0:02:16
unexpected tag 59 [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1134)
[receiver=3.0.5]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9238 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600)
[generator=3.0.5]
Retrying...
receiving incremental file list

Logs from another run show:-
[server]
2009/04/16 15:48:01 [1049] building file list
2009/04/16 15:48:08 [1049] .d..t...... content/misc/elbonio/
2009/04/16 15:48:53 [1049] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes
[sender]: Broken pipe (32)
2009/04/16 15:48:53 [1049] rsync error: errors with program diagnostics (code
13) at log.c(237) [sender=3.0.5]
[/server]

[client]
2009/04/16 15:47:52 [57229] receiving file list
2009/04/16 15:48:00 [57231] .d..t...... content/misc/elbonio/
2009/04/16 15:48:45 [57231] unexpected tag -131 [receiver]
2009/04/16 15:48:45 [57231] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
(code 12) at io.c(1134) [receiver=3.0.5]
2009/04/16 15:48:45 [57229] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9238 bytes
received so far) [generator]
2009/04/16 15:48:45 [57229] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
(code 12) at io.c(600) [generator=3.0.5]
[/client]

    Regards
    Steve

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 03:53:24PM +0100, Steven Hartland
wrote:
> unexpected tag -96 [receiver]
You don't mention what options you're using, so I'm unable to try to
hint you towards option tweaks to try.  e.g. if using -z, try dropping
it.  You could also try forcing an older protocol (e.g. --protocol=29)
to try to help narrow down the issue.

The error above indicates that the binary protocol is out of whack.
That either means that rsync is confused about what data comes next
(which could be the writer or the reader's fault), or that your
connection corrupted the bytes.  There is a way to make a record of the
data that is being sent and is received to check if it differs by using
the savetransfer program (see the C source in the support dir for its
usage).

..wayne..