[Wylug-help] Rsync is broken?

[Jim Jackson]

My advice at this point would be to consult the experts.

Try reporting the problem to the authors stating what version of s/w and
lib you are using.

 http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/


On Tue, 1 May 2007, RichardA wrote:

> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, RichardA wrote:
> >
> > > Tried again with different cables -- scp failed after 7 GB or so.
> > >
> > > All I can think of to do is to reinstall the server OS and then try
> > > a different PC. The symptoms don't point to any particular piece of
> > > hardware or software so I'll change everything I haven't already
> > > changed.
> >
> > Reinstalling the server sounds like a sub-par idea if you ask me as
> > it'll take a while and not test much.  You've tried it with rsync and
> > scp.  Either there's a bug in a shared library between the two or the
> > kernel's the problem. I'd try rolling the kernel back to a 2.6.8 era
> > kernel and see what gives.
>
> I've just remembered that the server updates itself weekly, so a power
> outage could have rebooted it into a newer kernel (apologies for not
> mentioning this earlier, but I built it last summer and forgot all
> about it until it failed to work).
>
>  However, I've tried scp with all four of the installed kernels
> (2.6.15-23, -26, -27 and -28) with no luck. I have all of the Aptitude
> update logs and there are no references to rsync or scp. There is a ssh
> update, but it's from October of last year and this was working until
> January.
>
> How do I find which libraries are used by both rsync and scp?
>
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