Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Overflow Error??

[Jorge Luis Williams]

On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 04:41 PM, Ben Escoto wrote:

> > > > > > "OGW" == Jorge Luis Williams <address@hidden>
> > > > > > wrote the following on Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:36:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
>   JW> I'm using rdiff-backup to back up my Linux system running on an
>   JW> intel machine into an OpenBSD system running on a Sparc.
>   JW> Initial backup goes well, however when I try to back up again I
>   JW> get the following error on the Linux side:
>     ...
>   JW>   OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
>
>   JW> I get this error using both the 0.10.1 version and the 0.11.0
>   JW> version -- any ideas?
>
> What I'm guessing is happening is that there some error on the BSD
> system, and that causes garbage (in the form of a big number) to be
> sent to the linux system, which then exits in an OverflowError.
>
>     Is there any way you can get the stderr from the BSD side?
> Usually ssh will redirect both the stdout and stderr, so you can see
> both tracebacks.  Also the other side might have written some useful
> messages to the error log.
>
>
> --
> Ben Escoto
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I'm sorry but as far as i can tell no related information is output to 
my log files /var/log/*.  Also the file backup.log is empty. Perhaps 
I'm looking in the wrong place?  Are there any other things I can try?

I don't know much about python, but could this possibly be related to 
the fact that the sparc and the intel machines have different word 
sizes etc??

jOrGe W.