linux rsync <-> SSHDroid has started becoming unreliable after an upgrade of Fedora 28 to 29

[Paul Slootman]

On Sun 03 Feb 2019, Philip Rhoades via rsync wrote:
> 
> For some years I have been using rsync quite happily to send / retrieve
> files to / from SSHDroid Pro but recently I have started having a problem
> when transferring large numbers of file - I am pretty sure it started after
> upgrading from Fedora x86_64 28 to 29 - but I am not 100% sure.  Below is

[...]

> Corrupted MAC on input.
> ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.1.100 port 22: message
> authentication code incorrect

ssh's communication gets disrupted somehow, and stops the connection,
thus causing rsync to fail.

This is a problem with ssh, not with rsync. Try enabling ssh debug
options, and try using different ssh ciphers.


Paul