Re: `Network error: broken pipe` when running tarsnap-keygen

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi Card & list,

On 07/20/15 10:14, Carl van Tonder wrote:
> Started getting set up with Tarsnap today and have run into an odd
> error:
> 
>     # ./tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /etc/tarsnap.key --user my@email.com -
>     -machine box
>     Enter tarsnap account password: 
>     tarsnap-keygen: Network error: Broken pipe
>     tarsnap-keygen: Callbacks uninitialized

These error messages are being printed due to a bug; however...

>     tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server

... this error message is almost certainly real.  (The conditions which
trigger the bug almost always include "tarsnap can't connect to the tarsnap
server".)

> Any thoughts on what the cause might be, or how to get more debugging
> info about what's going wrong?

Do you have a firewall blocking outgoing connections to port TCP/9279?

-- 
Colin Percival
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Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid