Bug#493559: rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option

[Jonathan Steinert]

Subject: rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option
Followup-For: Bug #493559
Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.3-2

I have this happening against blackholes.us:

rosa:/var/lib/rbldns$ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl .
rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option
rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at clientserver.c(517)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [receiver=3.0.3]
rosa:/var/lib/rbldns$ rsync -v rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl .
countries.rbl

sent 4996 bytes received 3370 bytes 5577.33 bytes/sec
total size is 651098 speedup is 77.83

Downing to protocol 29 doesn't help either.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.5 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-2 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 secure shell server, an rshd repla

-- no debconf information

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[Paul Slootman]

On Tue 23 Sep 2008, Jonathan Steinert wrote:
>
> I have this happening against blackholes.us:
>
> rosa:/var/lib/rbldns$ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl .
> rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option
> rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at clientserver.c(517)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [receiver=3.0.3]
> rosa:/var/lib/rbldns$ rsync -v rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl .
> countries.rbl
>
> sent 4996 bytes received 3370 bytes 5577.33 bytes/sec
> total size is 651098 speedup is 77.83
>
> Downing to protocol 29 doesn't help either.

It seems like the remote daemon expects to always have an option
passed... Adding -v makes it work, as does e.g. -t.

I think that this may be a result of some strange configuration at the
remote end... However, it is a regression from 2.6.9, so I've asked
upstream about this.

Paul Slootman