ports/52006: rsync fails with protocol problems

[Klaus-J.Wolf]

>Number:         52006
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       rsync fails with protocol problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 09 17:00:21 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Klaus-J. Wolf
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD golulu.logelhorst.xx 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #6: Mon Apr 14 23:23:03 CEST 2003 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/GOLULU i386


>Description:
>From my message to rsync at lists.samba!org:

let me shortly describe the background of my problem: I was using a Gentoo box 
as a workstation and a NetBSD-1.6 box as a backup machine. Everything ran 
perfectly. Now I switched my workstation OS to FreeBSD-4.8_RELEASE.

Both rsyncs are made from the ports, respectively (with Gentoo, it were the 
Ebuilds, but the same idea...). (FreeBSD port version: 2.5.6_1)

Now, when I try to synchronize the backup, I get a disturbing error message, 
something like (running -n dry-run mode):

[...many lines of text...]
deleting directory work/nvidia/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191
deleting directory work/nvidia
unexpected tag 94
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(315)

or:

[...many lines of text...]
.thumbnails/normal/ee4752ec2125bc1faef8edd4a75d1df5.png
.thumbnails/normal/ee55bb657904968ef3f852db22a17662.png
Invalid file index 117440540 (count=136972)
rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at sender.c(135)

I have checked the network connection by transferring >11GB (cat xyz |rsh 
amadillo "md5"), and I had no problems. It's simply a cross-over cable 
between the machines, so I don't expect any switch problems, and they're both 
x86-based.

My command line looks like:
rsync -n -e rsh -axv --delete --exclude-from $TMPF --delete-excluded 
--progress ~kjwolf/ amadillo:/pile/myhome

>How-To-Repeat:

Unknown.

>Fix:

Unknown.


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