zlib problem?

[Dave Dykstra]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:28:05AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:54:01AM -0800, Victor Grey wrote:
> > Using a fresh copy of rsync 2.5.4 installed from the ports collection on
> > FreeBSD  4.5 Release:
> > 
> > Works fine unless I try to copy a large file with -avz, then I get:
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1377 bytes read so far)
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)
> > 
> > Can copy the same file with -av successfully.
> > 
> > Just wondering if this is a known problem that someone is working on.
> 
> It isn't that I know of.  The fact that it hangs after only 1377 bytes
> sounds like it's surely not a network problem.  Please try to debug it
> further if you can; I don't have a freebsd system to try to reproduce it
> on, although perhaps somebody else on the mailing list would volunteer to
> debug it if you can find a publicly-available large file on which this
> happens and give precise instructions on how to duplicate it.

Actually, there was a problem in 2.5.3 that could likely have had that
symptom; are you sure the remote side also has 2.5.4?

- Dave Dykstra