[rdiff-backup-users] Assertion errors in rdiff-backup 0.13.3

[Gr We]

Hello, I almost always get an error like this when I try to copy between a 
Debian and FreeBSD box:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 247, in 
Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 218, in 
take_action
   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 264, in 
Backup
   Time.setprevtime(prevtime)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Time.py", line 52, in 
setprevtime
   assert 0 < timeinseconds < curtime, \
AssertionError: Time 1075584346 is out of bounds
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 247, in 
Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 216, in 
take_action
   connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
336, in Server
   self.get_response(-1)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
298, in get_response
   try: req_num, object = self._get()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
221, in _get
   raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'xxx/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-01-31T22:07:39+02:00.data.gz', mode 
'wb' at 0x81e5420 0x8331f4c>> ignored

If I run the command many times - the first time it works and then about 
every 10th run again. Because of that I modified 
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Time.py, to get more verbose 
output and when it doesn't work it looks like this:
AssertionError: Time 1075591119 is out of bounds (curtime: 1075588293)
AssertionError: Time 1075591966 is out of bounds (curtime: 1075588546)
Why is the curtime number smaller? How could this happen? Both systems have 
the clock set to the same time (only +- one second). I tryed the argument 
for setting current time, but it is ignored by this funcion.

Because I think that this assert comparing is just a cpu and memory eating 
thing i commented it out and now everything always works fine.

I hope someone will fix this in the newer version.

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