hi,

Rsync does not want any thing to be echoed back when ssh to client from 
root's .bashrc file.

as a test from the backuppc server try this
as user backuppc:

ssh root@clientname ls
anaconda-ks.cfg
Desktop
install.log
install.log.syslog
mail
Mail

results should be list of files in root's home area on clientname


I added echo $PATH to root's .bashrc on clientname and now get this:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
anaconda-ks.cfg
Desktop
install.log
install.log.syslog
mail
Mail

this will cause rsync to fail

Just comment out any echo lines in root's .bashrc or in your case lines 
that are trying to set the display.

Mark


Mark Adams wrote:
> A Google search indicates that this may be a problem with rsync, but I 
> can't find anything more specific and I don't know enough about rsync 
> over ssh or backuppc to know where to start troubleshooting. Can someone 
> please enlighten me?
> 
> I would really appreciate it.
> 
> Here is the log file from a failed transaction:
> 
> =================================================
> 
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<client>/XferLOG.bad, modified 
> 2008-12-02 02:45:52 (Extracting only Errors)
> 
> full backup started for directory /
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root <client> /usr/bin/rsync --server 
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links 
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 31565
> Got remote protocol 1936926730
> Fatal error (bad version): (ssh-askpass:31566): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot 
> open display: localhost:10.0
> 
> Checksum seed is 1935748456
> Got checksumSeed 0x73612d68
> Sent include: /mnt
> Sent include: /mnt/<client>
> Sent include: /mnt/<client>/images
> Sent include: /mnt/<client>/photos
> Sent exclude: /*
> Sent exclude: /mnt/*
> Sent exclude: /mnt/<client>/*
> Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the 
> prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
> 

-- 
Mark Maciolek
Network Administrator
Morse Hall 339
862-3050
mlm AT sr.unh DOT edu
https://www.sr.unh.edu

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