"error in rsync protocol data stream"

[Scott Lipcon]

Hello,

I'm having a problem doing a remote rsync over ssh -  i'm using a script that 
has worked for quite a while, using rsync 2.4.6 on both ends.  I upgraded the 
"client" to 2.5.5, and began seeing this error:

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (158246 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)

At which time there is a large core file generated on the remote side 
(unfortuantely, the debugger on the remote side isn't giving me anything 
useful)

I assumed that it was a bad interaction between the local 2.5.5 and the remote 
2.4.6, so I upgraded the remote machine to 2.5.5 as well, and the problem 
remains.  My local machine is an athlon running FreeBSD 4.5, and the remote 
side is a Sparc 5 running OpenBSD 2.8.  The command line I'm using is:

rsync -avz -P --delete --include-from=/u0/includes --partial remote:/ .

I'd appreciate any ideas... please cc replies to me.

Thanks,

Scott