Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Errno 34 on CentOS 5.1

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Mike wrote:

> I recently did a yum update to rdiff-backup-1.2.2-1.el5.rf
> Since then the following command fails:
>
> # rdiff-backup -v9 /etc/ /tmp/etc-test
>
> Any ideas?  The details are below.
>
> -- Thanks, Mike
>
> ...
> Tue Nov 11 13:33:54 2008  Processing changed file alternatives/antlr
> Tue Nov 11 13:33:54 2008  Making directory path /tmp/etc-test/rdiff- 
> backup-data/increments/alternatives
> Tue Nov 11 13:33:54 2008  Regular copying ('alternatives', 'antlr')  
> to /tmp/etc-test/alternatives/rdiff-backup.tmp.98
> Tue Nov 11 13:33:54 2008  Exception '[Errno 34] Numerical result out  
> of range' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError':

Also, there's a good chance this is a bug in pyxattr since this  
particular error code is ERANGE. From the getxattr(2) manpage:

       If the size of the value buffer is too small to hold the  
result,  errno
       is set to ERANGE.



Andrew