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Date:      Wed, 09 May 2001 21:03:27 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rsync woes 
Message-ID:  <20010510040327.56705380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010509202802.A15761@ncsa.uiuc.edu> 

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Jon Dugan wrote:
>   I finally managed to get a clean rsync from ftp-master this afternoon.
> 
>   I had a heck of a time getting rsync to run all the way through.  I am usin
    g
>   2.4.6 and the command line Peter suggested.  I must've run it 10 times over
>   the last 5 days trying to get a full copy. 
>   
>   It would just silently die once in a while -- in particular trying to get
>   ISO images, but not exclusively.  The output of -vvvvv showed this: (I only
>   have one -vvvvv run logged)
> 
>     recv_files(releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso)
>     recv mapped releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso of size 685191168
>     releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso
>     deflate on token returned 0 (16384 bytes left)
>     unexpected EOF in read_timeout
>     unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> 
>   This sounds like the problem Daniel Lang reported on the 3rd.  Anyone else
>   seen this?

I think I know what is going on.  rsync is using an embedded zlib-1.1.2
library.  We got burned a few times with 1.1.2 ourselves, and have 1.1.3
in the tree.  The changelog for 1.1.3 says:

Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998)
- fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent
  occasions" (Mark)
...

I half suspect this is the reason for the problems. :-(  I wonder how many
tweaks were made to the embedded copy?

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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