Compression error?

[Matt McCutchen]

On 7/19/07, WCSL <rsync at wcsl.net> wrote:
> Error received when trying to use rsync -vz on the client
>
> inflate (token) returned -5
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(458)
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes: phase "unknown"
> [generator]: Broken pipe (32)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(909)
>
> Seems to work fine without compression -z flag omitted.

There have been occasional reports of -z getting corrupted in the
past, but we've never gotten a reproducible case to investigate and
find the underlying problem.  If you run the command repeatedly, does
that same error occur every time?  Even better if it still happens
with the same files on a different pair of machines.  If so, please
send the source and destination files prior to the run to Wayne
Davison <wayned at samba.org>, the rsync maintainer, unless they're big
and/or private in which case you should discuss other arrangements
with him.

Matt