Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error on FreeBSD: "select: Bad file descriptor"

[Yann Golanski]

So, does anyone have a idea about this bug in rdiff? 

Quoth Yann Golanski on Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:28:04 +0100
> I am backing up two FreeBSD servers onto one.  One of those backed up
> servers is on the other side of a firewall but apart from that they are
> the same -- 5.2.1, python and rdiff-backup version match.  The one
> inside the firewall works like a charm.  The one outside on the other
> hand gives me the following error with the same command. 
> 
> Does anyone have an idea why this is so?
> 
> # /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --verbosity 6 address@hidden::/etc \
>   /usr/vault/backups/raven/etc
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
>     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 252, in Main
>     rps = map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
> line 73, in cmdpair2rp
>     if cmd: conn = init_connection(cmd)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
> line 136, in init_connection
>     check_connection_version(conn, remote_cmd)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
> line 144, in check_connection_version
>     try: remote_version = conn.Globals.get('version')
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 440, in __call__
>     return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 360, in reval
>     result = self.get_response(req_num)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 309, in get_response
>     try: req_num, object = self._get()
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 234, in _get
>     data = self._read(length)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 203, in _read
>     return self.inpipe.read(length)
> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> select: Bad file descriptor
> 
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