For several years I've been doing an rsync across-the-lan backup for home directories. All has worked well until recently (well, since the fedup to f20 last night). Now backups are failing with an inscrutable rsync error. While the errors mention selinux, I don't see any errors in either the sending or receiving machines /var/log/secure logfiles. exclude=" --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=simplelock --exclude=.popmail.lock --exclude=SingletonLock --exclude=SingletonCookie --exclude=SingletonSocket " rsync -axHAX --log-file=/var/log/rsync.log --log-file-format="%t [%p] $host %o %f %l" --delete --delete-excluded $exclude /home/ $host:/home/ /var/log/rsync.log: ... 2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/record.baseB"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/termlist.baseA"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/termlist.baseB"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/hackbin/monitor-layout"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 2013/11/24 09:35:23 [15417] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(634) [sender=3.1.0pre1] Any ideas what's up and what I need to do to get this working again? -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org