inflate returned -3

William Stearns wstearns at pobox.com
Fri Jul 26 09:16:02 EST 2002


Good day, all,
	I'm trying to transfer a 174M file to a system with 1.2G free.  
Other files in the tree come over just fine, but this transfer dies 
partway through:

rsync -avvz -e ssh --partial --progress server.with.the.file:/server/directory /local/directory

opening connection using ssh server.with.the.file rsync --server --sender -vvlogDtprz --partial . /local/directory 
receiving file list ... 
30 files to consider
OneFile is uptodate
...
path/to/hosts.tar.bz2
inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)    0:02:17
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(416)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (792 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)

	Client is using rsync 2.5.4 from RH7.3

	Server is using rsync 2.4.6 from rh6.2 (sorry about the old 
version; this machine is one we're not supposed to ugrade; long story).

	File to be transferred:
-rw-r--r--    1 wstearns wstearns 174555493 Dec  6  2000 hosts.tar.bz2

	Adding two more -v's makes the negotiation more verbose, but the 
error still shows up:

chunk[1796] of size 16384 at 29425664 offset=29425664
chunk[1797] of size 16384 at 29442048 offset=29442048
chunk[1798] of size 16384 at 29458432 offset=29458432
chunk[1799] of size 16384 at 29474816 offset=29474816
chunk[1800] of size 16384 at 29491200 offset=29491200
chunk[1801] of size 16384 at 29507584 offset=29507584
inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(416)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (792 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)

	I would sincerely like to help debug this; any suggestions of what 
to inspect?  I'll try to get the server version up to 2.5.5 in the hopes 
that might help.

	Cheers,
	- Bill

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