unexpected tag errors

[Bradley Kite]

Hi All.

I've had this problem with rsync, the solution to which has been
really evasive to me. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm running rsync 2.5.5 between 2 SCO boxes and get random "unexpected tag"
errors. Sometimes the unexpected tag is positive, other times negetive,
and a retry of rsync usually manages to work the second or third time round.
The disks are identical in capacity on both systems (on
http://rsync.samba.org/issues.html
lists lack of diskspace causing a problem).

On the "client" system I get these errors:

[Thu Aug 15 23:22:56 2002] rsync: unexpected tag 79
[Thu Aug 15 23:22:56 2002] rsync: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data
stream (code 12) at io.c(298)
[Thu Aug 15 23:22:56 2002] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (3495 bytes
read so far)
[Thu Aug 15 23:22:56 2002] rsync: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data
stream (code 12) at io.c(150)

While on the "server" system I get:

Aug 15 23:27:12 abacus5 rsyncd[9449]: rsync: error writing 4096 unbuffered
bytes - exiting: Broken pipe
Aug 15 23:27:12 abacus5 rsyncd[9449]: rsync error: error in rsync protocol
data stream (code 12) at io.c(463)

Thanking you in advance.

Bradley Kite
Software Developer/Data Management Specialist
alchemetrics - smarter data, faster
Tel: 0118 902 9043 (direct line)
Email: bradley.kite at alchemetrics.co.uk
Web: http://www.alchemetrics.co.uk
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