Command line: rsync -v -c -r -t --delete --progress "/cygdrive/c/my documents" "/cygdrive/d/my documents" /cygdrive/c is my main drive, /cygdrive/d is an Iomega Zip drive. On the second file, I get a blue screen with the fatal exception mentioned in the summary. Output in the cygwin window: ================================== dfrankow@computer /cygdrive/c/My Documents/sysadmin $ rsync -v -c -r -t --delete --progress "/cygdrive/c/my documents" "/cygdrive/d/my documents" building file list ... 2179 files to consider my documents/ my documents/.emacs 7815 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (1, 0.1% of 2179) my documents/Bertha.doc 32768 32% 507.94kB/s 0:00:00 rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c(231) dfrankow@computer /cygdrive/c/My Documents/sysadmin $ dfrankow@computer /cygdrive/c/My Documents/sysadmin $ rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 106 bytes: phase "unknown" [generator]: Invalid argument (22) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c(909) =========================== Probably this is a Cygwin problem and not an rsync problem, but I do only see it with rsync. $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others ... I found this web page that I thought might be related: http://www.techadvice.com/w98/E/errors_ifsmgr.htm I tried unchecking the "Disconnect" checkbox as instructed, rebooting of course. It didn't change anything.
Oops, report my hardware and platform.
Forgot: just to let you know, after the blue screen I hit a space to return, and the rsync just hangs. Then I hit control-C and that's when I see rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at ...
Did you report this to the Cygwin folks? If so, any word back yet?
I am sorry, I did not. I'm not sure where to report it. If you know, I'd be willing to forward it.
I hope you googled for the cygwin mailing lists on your own instead of waiting for a slow reply from me. If not, here is where you can access the cygwin mailing lists: http://cygwin.com/lists.html I'm going to resolve this as "LATER" since this doesn't appear to be a bug in rsync, and this is what I'm using to mean "the bug is outside of rsync, so evaluate the outside fix at a later date".