[rdiff-backup-users] IOError in backup.log

[Bob Mead]

Hello all:

I'm a noob linux user trying to get rdiff v1.0.5 working (older Gentoo 
server at origin, new Ubuntu 8.04 install on virtual machine is 
destination). I had troubles with the install so this might be related. 
When I (finally) ran rdiff the first time, I got the following error(s) 
in backup.log:

Exception '[Errno 32] Broken pipe' raised of class '<type 
'exceptions.IOError'>':
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 
32, in check_common_error
   try: return function(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
96, in copy
   if rpin.isreg(): copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
118, in copy_reg_file
   rpout.write_from_fileobj(rpin.open("rb"), compress = compress)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
978, in write_from_fileobj
   copyfileobj(fp, outfp)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
58, in copyfileobj
   inbuf = inputfp.read(blocksize)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
1201, in read
   def read(self, length = -1): return self.file.read(length)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 
117, in read
   if not self.addtobuffer(): break
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 
132, in addtobuffer
   type, data = self.iwf._get()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 
401, in _get
   if not self.buf: self.buf += self.file.read()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 513, in read
   return self.connection.VirtualFile.readfromid(self.id, length)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 445, in __call__
   return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 363, in reval
   self._put(ConnectionRequest(function_string, len(args)), req_num)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 138, in _put
   else: self._putobj(obj, req_num)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 143, in _putobj
   self._write("o", pickle.dumps(obj, 1), req_num)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 204, in _write
   self.outpipe.flush()

I've also got a gzipped error log that returns:
   gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
   tar: Child returned status 1
   tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
when I try tar xvzf <filename>.

I found a similar (same type of error, different line #'s) post by 
Patrick Nagel in the archives from August, with no response (that I 
could find) on the IO Error.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Bob Mead

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