I ran into this bug today while copying a tree of files from one Debian amd64 system to another, both running sid and with the rsync package version 3.1.0-2 installed. The options used were "-avzh", plus "--progress" and some "--exclude" options that I doubt are relevant.
The first file that failed was 1078591488 bytes in size, and it failed with the message: inflate returned -3 (6 bytes) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(557) [receiver=3.1.0] rsync: [generator] write error: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at io.c(837) [generator=3.1.0] After I copied that file over with scp and tried the rsync again, it got past that file and failed on another one, 1166082048 bytes in size, with the message: inflate returned -3 (0 bytes) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(557) [receiver=3.1.0] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (2059 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [generator=3.1.0] After copying that one over with scp, rsync was able to transfer all the other files without problems. In case it's relevant, I was running rsync on the receiving end, to copy the files *from* the remote host. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org