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

[Oliver Hookins]

On Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:29:23 +1000, Oliver Hookins wrote:
>On Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 15:42:48 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Oliver Hookins wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Oh, I think I've seen this before. I believe you have made a  
>> configuration mistake with your shell or some such -- I believe that  
>> rdiff-backup is not being found in the path and starting properly. You  
>> should manually SSH in and see what's going on. Also, the ' -v9 ' option 
>> might help.
>>
>> That traceback indicates that rdiff-backup on the source side has asked 
>> the destination side for its version number. The destination side 
>> responded with something entirely bogus. I seem to recall seeing that 
>> happen when rdiff-backup was not properly setup on the destination side. 
>> Instead of rdiff-backup running like usual, the shell had responded with 
>> "Can't find rdiff-backup, please ask the system administrator" or some 
>> non-sense like that.
>
>Hmm... nothing in the setup of either the sources or destinations have
>changed as far as I know. This is what the destination prints out with -v 9:
>
>Wed Jul 23 10:21:42 2008  Using rdiff-backup version 1.1.16
>Wed Jul 23 10:21:42 2008  Executing ssh address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
>Wed Jul 23 10:21:42 2008  Client sending (0): ConnectionRequest: Globals.get 
>with 1 arguments
>Wed Jul 23 10:21:42 2008  Client sending (0): 'version'
>Wed Jul 23 10:21:42 2008  Exception 'requested number of bytes is more than a 
>Python string can hold' raised of class 'exceptions.OverflowError':
>
>I have strace output from the source but it doesn't really show much.
>Any other diagnostics I can perform?

Actually, forget that, I found the problem - a few added "echo" lines in the
.bashrc file on the source. 

-- 
Regards,
Oliver Hookins