various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

[jw schultz]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 03:20:31PM +0800, wearitdown at myrealbox.com wrote:
> Hi jw schultz,
> 
> >Please check your rsync log file (created by the daemon) for
> >error messages.  Also try without compression.
> > 
> >
> 
> When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always ran 
> without --compress.  Nevertheless, I've tried increasing verbosity by 3, 
> and this is what I get:

Check the rsync log file.  That is where the error message
will be.

> 
>    receiving file list ...
>    recv_file_name(.)
>    recv_file_name(net-zope)
>    recv_file_name(net-zope/btreefolder2)
>    [snip]
>    recv_generator(x11-wm/xpde/xpde-0.2.0.ebuild,49890)
>    x11-wm/xpde/xpde-0.2.0.ebuild is uptodate
>    recv_generator(x11-wm/xpde/xpde-0.3.0.ebuild,49891)
>    x11-wm/xpde/xpde-0.3.0.ebuild is uptodate
>    generate_files phase=1
>    recv_files(metadata/timestamp)
>    recv mapped metadata/timestamp of size 29
>    metadata/timestamp
>    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1494175 bytes read so far)
>    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
>    _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=165): about to call exit(12)
>    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1494155 bytes read so far)
>    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
>    _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=165): about to call exit(12)
> 
> I'll disable compression on my rsync daemon, increase verbosity and see 
> how that goes.
> 
> >It seems as though something happened in 2.5.6 where
> >compression and daemon produce this.  My impression is that
> >it doesn't happen via ssh nor without compression.  So far
> >we don't have a test case nor have any of the developers
> >experienced it.  You may want to try cvs where some of the
> >io routines have been changed.
> >
> 
> I've been running rsync as a client without --compress; is it still 
> likely to be caused by compression?
> 
> I'll think about trying cvs to see if that helps; right now, I'm trying 
> not to introduce too many variables at a time.
> 
> 
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