. On both clients rdiff-backup is 1.2.8 installed with macports. The server rdiff-backup is the port of 1.2.8
The end of the failed verbose log is below (the full log is hundreds of lines).
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Regressing to Tue Nov 29 00:13:28 2011
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Warning, could not find mirror_metadata file.
Metadata will be read from filesystem instead.
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Fatal Error: No metadata for time Tue Nov 29 00:13:28 2011 (1322522008) found,
cannot regress
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Sending back exception 1 of type <type 'exceptions.SystemExit'>:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 335, in answer_request
result = apply(eval(request.function_string), argument_list)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line 71, in Regress
for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line 196, in iterate_meta_rfs
collated = rorpiter.Collate2Iters(raw_rfs, yield_metadata())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line 185, in yield_metadata
% (Time.timetopretty(regress_time), regress_time))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/log.py", line 163, in FatalError
sys.exit(errlevel)
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Server sending (0): 1
Thu Dec 1 16:58:36 2011 Client received (0): 1
$ Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Exception 'Truncated header string (problem probably originated remotely)' raised of class '<class 'rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError'>':
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main
try: Main(arglist)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main
take_action(rps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 278, in take_action
connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 355, in Server
self.get_response(-1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 315, in get_response
try: req_num, object = self._get()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 233, in _get
raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
Thu Dec 1 16:58:37 2011 Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
How do I find out what is wrong?
Any help appreciated,
Stuart
