Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Overflow error 0.13.6

[Jan Jitse Venselaar]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 03:28, dean gaudet wrote:
> the error in this case is generated on the remote side and raised back on
> the local side... for more help try -v5 which will let us see the error on
> the remote side before it's sent back.  that might help narrow it some.
>
> but my guess is it's a uid/gid issue -- there's a commit in CVS 0.13.7
> which might help this... you could try the current cvs
> <https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=rdiff-backup>.
>
> -dean
I took a CVS snapshot of today (02/07/2005) and made it run with -v5. The 
error:

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Sending back exception long int too large to convert to int of type 
exceptions.OverflowError:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
334,
in answer_request
    result = apply(eval(request.function_string), argument_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 218, in 
patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 279, 
in
 __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 476, in 
fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 503, in 
patch_to_temp
    rpath.copy_attribs(diff_rorp, new)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 164, in 
copy_attribs
    if not rpin.isdev(): rpout.setmtime(rpin.getmtime())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 765, in 
setmtime
    self.conn.os.utime(self.path, (long(time.time()), modtime))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 250, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 303, in 
Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 38, 
in
Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
445
, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
367
, in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
localhost rdiff-backup #     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 248, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
352,                                                                            
  
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
314,                                                                            
  
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
230,                                                                            
  
in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem 
probably originated remotely)
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" 
in /usr/lib/                                                                    
         
python2.3/gzip.py:129: FutureWarning: hex()/oct() of negative int will return 
a                                                                              
signed string in Python 2.4 and up
  return '<gzip ' + s[1:-1] + ' ' + hex(id(self)) + '>'
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/huge/backup/rdiff/rdiff-                                                  
                           
backup-data/file_statistics.2005-07-02T13:24:43+02:00.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 
0xb                                                                             
7ec8ba0 0xb7d795ec>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
me                                                                             
thod GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/huge/backup/rdiff/rdiff-backup-da                                         
                                    
ta/error_log.2005-07-02T13:24:43+02:00.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 0xb7ec8b60 
0xb7ee3                                                                         
    
dcc>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in  
ignored

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So, it is not fixed with recent CVS. Also, no files larger than 600 MB were 
involved. There are around 40000 files in the partition. Hopefully, this more 
informative error will show the way to a solution.

Jan Jitse