Re: [rdiff-backup-users] AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error_check_Main'

[Gerard van Dijnsen]

Hmm...

I get this when ssh returns an unexpected output like a last login 
message or /etc/motd or something. Be sure to have the following in your 
/etc/sshd_config:

PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog no

Worked for me...
Gerard

Felix Matschke wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to start rdiff-backup on my small debian/Mac OS X  
> network (until now I used plain rsync). I installed rdiff-backup  
> version 1.1.5 on both systems and there seems to be no problem (on  
> debian via apt-get and on OS X Tiger via darwinports). From my OS X  
> machine I can issue a command like
>
> rdiff-backup address@hidden::/Users/me /home/me/Backup/me
>
> without any problems. But I would like to use it as a cron job on the  
> debian-server. Rsync worked just fine with a batch file like
>
>     unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK
>     eval `ssh-agent`
>     ssh-add /home/me/.ssh/rsyncMe
>     /usr/bin/rsync -avz address@hidden:/Users/me /home/me/Backup
>
> but the seemingly equivalent batch file
>
>     unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK
>     eval `ssh-agent`
>     ssh-add /home/me/.ssh/rsyncMe
>     rdiff-backup address@hidden::/Users/me /home/me/Backup/me
>
> gives me the following error message:
>
>     Agent pid 8100
>     Identity added: /home/me/.ssh/rsyncMe (/home/me/.ssh/rsyncMe)
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
>         rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
>     AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error_check_Main'
>     Fatal Error: Truncated header string (problem probably originated  
> remotely)
>
>     Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing
>     
>         ssh -C address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
>     
>     Remember that, under the default settings, rdiff-backup must be
>     installed in the PATH on the remote system.  See the man page for 
> more
>     information on this.  This message may also be displayed if the 
> remote
>     version of rdiff-backup is quite different from the local version  
> (1.1.5).
>
> Issuing
>
>         ssh -C address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
>
> results in the same error message.
>
> Did anybody experience the same error message?
>
> Felix
>
>
>
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