rsync displays an number of errors when rysncing on gentoo

[eial at cs.bgu.ac.il]

On Wed 20 Feb 22:59 2008 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, eial at cs.bgu.ac.il wrote:
> > hello, I'm running an Gentoo distribution on my computer, lately I've
> > started to get error messages that are rsync related. here is a log of the
> > output:
> >
> > Fetching most recent snapshot
> > Attempting to fetch file dated: 20080219
> > portage-20080219.tar.bz2: OK
> > Syncing local tree...
> > building file list ...
> > rsync: link_stat "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/portage/180" failed: No such
> > file or directory (2) 121547 files to consider
> > /
> > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
> >
> > Number of files: 121547
> > Number of files transferred: 0
> > Total file size: 151081538 bytes
> > Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
> > Literal data: 0 bytes
> > Matched data: 0 bytes
> > File list size: 2837589
> > File list generation time: 1.433 seconds
> > File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
> > Total bytes sent: 2837599
> > Total bytes received: 15
> >
> > sent 2837599 bytes  received 15 bytes  3222.73 bytes/sec
> > total size is 151081538  speedup is 53.24
> > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1060)
> > [sender=3.0.0pre9] cleaning up
> > transferring metadata/cache
> >
> > this started about a few days ago when I've updated to rsync 2.6.9-r5,
> 
> 2.6.9-r5 includes the munge-symlinks upstream fix.  rsync-3.0.0_pre10 is in 
> portage ... please install that and retest.
> -mike
> 

actually, pre9 is the latest version that is in portage