'error in rsync protocol data stream' - Tim Conway

Trevor Marshall tm at well.com
Wed Sep 18 00:01:01 EST 2002


Tim,
Thanks for the thought, but I did all that back at the start of September
when I first posted all the gory details up.

Rsync, if it worked reliably, would be the perfect tool for the job.

..Trevor..

At 01:03 PM 9/17/2002 -0600, tim.conway at philips.com wrote:
>I'm sure your system is fine.  What about the rsync, though?  If it's 
>still 2.4.6, you're not getting anywhere.  Get the source from 
>http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz
>untargz it somewhere, and in the directory it creates, which will be named 
>"rsync-2.5.5", type "./configure ; make ; make install"
>On a properly-configured Linux system, those three commands should all run 
>successfully to completion, leaving you with the rsync binary as 
>/usr/local/bin/rsync, and the man pages distributed among /usr/local/man. 
>If your existing version is in /usr/bin or something, and you want to 
>override it, add "--prefix=/usr" or whatever, to redirect the install.
>It's that easy.
>If you want to leave off the installation stuff, you can, because the 
>binary is fully static and relocatable.
>I can't guarantee that this will solve your problems.  Sometimes, 
>individual problems can be fixed only by the individual involved.  In my 
>application, I finally had to write a custom app, completely abandoning 
>rsync, because of the limitations of the platforms I'm required to use.  I 
>still use rsync a lot, but as just another tool, like tar, cp, rsh, 
>whatever.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Tim Conway
>tim.conway at philips.com
>303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell
>Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
>1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
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>"There are some who call me.... Tim?"
>
>
>
>
>Trevor Marshall <tm at well.com>
>Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
>09/17/2002 11:10 AM
>
> 
>        To:     rsync at lists.samba.org
>        cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>        Subject:        Re: 'error in rsync protocol data stream' - Tim
Conway
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>Tim,
>I reported a protocol data stream error on 9/8/2002
>Deatils are in my postes at that time
>rsync still fails everytime I run it.
>
>This time I added three v's as you just suggested and rsync just hung with
>two tasks in execution thus:
>root      3178  0.1  0.9  1796  868 pts/1    S    09:57   0:00
>/usr/bin/rsync -vvva --delete --exclude=root/snapsh
>root      3179  0.0  0.6  1628  632 pts/1    S    09:57   0:00
>/usr/bin/rsync -vvva --delete --exclude=root/snapsh
>
>and the last data rsync put out was:
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_b1.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_default.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_hardware.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_hisax.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_icn.templ)
>make_file(4,var/adm/fillup-templates/i4l_ignore.templ)
>-----------then hangs---------------------
>
>Any ideas?
>Last time I was told to upgrade my hardware and OS.
>I run a solid, scrupulously updated, SuSE 7.3 system on reliable P-II/400
>hardware
>
>..Trevor Marshall...
>
>At 10:36 AM 9/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>Certainly, you should upgrade your rsync.  2.4.6 had more than its share 
>>of problems.  2.5.5 is generating few complaints.  As far as what's 
>>actually happening to you, if it continues after the upgrade, give us 
>>another run with more "v"s.
>>
>>Tim Conway
>>tim.conway at philips.com
>>303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell
>>Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
>>1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
>>Longmont, CO 80501
>>Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, caesupport2 on AIM
>>"There are some who call me.... Tim?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com>
>>Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
>>09/16/2002 11:39 PM
>>Please respond to pjb
>>
>> 
>>        To:     rsync at lists.samba.org
>>        cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>>        Subject:        'error in rsync protocol data stream'
>>        Classification: 
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>While doing a local "rsync" with:
>>
>>      rsync -v -auxHS  --force /      /backup/
>>
>>(on /backup is mounted another disk), I get these errors:
>>
>>rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe
>>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463)
>>rsync: error writing 69 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe
>>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463)
>>
>>
>>[pascal at thalassa mnt]$ rsync --version
>>rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
>>Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
>><http://rsync.samba.org/>
>>Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, 
>batchfiles, 
>>
>>              IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
>>
>>
>>What's the problem?
>>Should I upgrade rsync?
>>
>>
>>-- 
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