Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.17 released

[Oliver Hookins]

On Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 15:38:33 +1000, Oliver Hookins wrote:
>On Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:09:40 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>
>> The plan is to release this version as a new stable branch, 1.2.0 in  
>> about ten days.
>>
>> Before then, I am interested in exploring the SELinux issue and Oliver  
>> Hookins' problems. With respect to SELinux, rdiff-backup just relies  
>> upon Python's distutils to build the libraries, so it will require some 
>> digging to see why the SELinux chcon command is needed.
>
>Well I'm happy to provide any diagnostic information you would like to aid
>with this. Part of the problem to me seems like there is no logging on the
>client side - so if something goes wrong that isn't communicated to the
>server you have a difficult time finding out what went wrong. But I guess
>this wouldn't be trivial to implement.

This is very bizarre, a handful of my machines all failed the backup last
night with the same error which is one I haven't seen before:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 302,
in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 319,
in Main
    rps = map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 76, in cmdpair2rp
    if cmd: conn = init_connection(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 146, in init_connection
    check_connection_version(conn, remote_cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 154, in check_connection_version
    try: remote_version = conn.Globals.get('version')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
447, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
367, in reval
    result = self.get_response(req_num)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
314, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
239, in _get
    data = self._read(length)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
209, in _read
    try: return self.inpipe.read(length)
OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string can
hold
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

Any ideas about this one?

-- 
Regards,
Oliver Hookins