[rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

[Sergi Tur Badenas]

Hello,

First of all sorry for my poor English. Today and yesterday I was trying 
to configure rdiff-backup using the package slbackup from debian-edu. I 
have a lot of problems related with Overflow, differnet versions, 
etc.... I tried diferent versions of rdiff-backup, diferent machines I 
compiled the code and debuged the error, I read about python and long 
int, ints ...... I see some threads about this topic or related and 
somebody tells that perhaps it was a problem with python version 2.3. I 
tried 2.4 version without succes....


Finally It was all easier!!!!! The problem is that rdiff-backup use ssh 
to connect to the remote machine, execute commands like echos or similar 
and parse the output.... My problem was that i have some echos in 
.baschrc file in the home of the remote user (root).

I have something like:

echo "====================="
echo " You are connectec as root! Be careful
echo "====================="


This was processed by rdiff-backup as garbage an this was the origin of 
all problems. Afeter removing echos from .bashrc all started to work!

I expect that this message coul help somebody....

Maybe it coul be possible to use another method in new versions of rdiff 
in order to avoid this kind of errors....


bye