Bugzilla Bug 6546

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450360

Z% rsync -aHSAXR backup /
... [lots of errors like the ones below]
rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
lremovexattr("backup/vaults/s4/data/2009-07-04_05-09/var/log/.secure.P1N7VQ","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
lremovexattr("backup/vaults/s4/data/2009-07-04_05-09/var/log/audit/.audit.log.GHzRLK","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
lremovexattr("backup/vaults/s4/data/2009-07-04_05-09/var/run/.utmp.wjUr8E","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
lremovexattr("backup/vaults/s4/data/2009-07-04_05-09/var/run/mysqld/.mysqld.pid.DAHgkC","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code
23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6]
Z% 

Is rsync trying to tell me by that last line about main.c that there is a bug?

The last line is telling you that there were prior errors in either
transferring files or file permissions/attributes.  In this case, all the xattr
removal failures.

Ignore the remark in comment #0.  The issue is that SELinux won't allow any
process to remove the "security.selinux" attribute, so perhaps rsync should not
try.  OTOH, if SELinux is disabled, removing the attribute might be a useful
thing to do.  One option would be to block this on bug 4573 and require the
user to specify --xattr-filter='P security.selinux' when desired.

Ordinary warnings and data dependent errors are not bugs and shouldn't look
like bugs. Source code file name and line number makes it look like a bug and
should not be shown except for a bug.