This is an extrememly old post, so it might not be of any use anymore. I encountered this same error, and the problem ended up being a full filesystem (my destination filled up before completion).
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(140) Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com <mailto:rsync%40lists.samba.org?Subject=rsync%20error%3A%20error%20in%20 rsync%20protocol%20data%20stream%20%28code%2012%29%20at%20io.c%28140%29& In-Reply-To=3C7CC328.EBEFFDE1%40amtrak.co.uk> Thu Feb 28 05:54:15 EST 2002 * Previous message: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(140) <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/001717.html> * Next message: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(140) <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/001727.html> * Messages sorted by: [ date ] <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/date.html#1716> [ thread ] <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/thread.html#1716> [ subject ] <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/subject.html#1716> [ author ] <http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-February/author.html#1716> ________________________________ The rsync code that prints that error on line 270 of receiver.c is printing strerror(errno), and that error message "Success:12" looks very strange to me. If the 12 indicates errno, that's an ENOMEM error. Is your system out of virtual address space? Maybe it is so low on memory that it's printing the default error message "Success" rather the real one. An argument against the out-of-virtual-memory theory is that I don't see write_file() calling malloc as a side effect anywhere. Maybe the kernel itself is out of memory. - Dave On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:29:44AM +0000, Andrew McGregor wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 2.5.3pre1 but have (virtually) the same error: > > | write failed on large_file2 : Success:12 > | rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(271) > | rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (201 bytes read so far) > | rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > io.c(151) > > The command I run is: > > | andrewm at massachusetts <http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync> :~/test-rsync$ rsync -v --progress > conn:/home/andrewm/test-rsync/tree/* /home/andrewm/test-rsync/rsh_tree/ > > Are there other debug options I can use? Or possibly compile the source > differently to help prove/disprove this as a bug/local system problem? > > Regards > > Andrew McGregor John Greenfelder System Engineer II Lowes Companies (336) 658-3741
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