inflate returned -3

[William Stearns]

Good day, all,

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, William Stearns wrote:

> 	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.

	Bringing the server up to 2.5.5 did not change the error message:
inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)    0:01:36
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)

	/me scratches head.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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