rsync is bad

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I hoped that rsync would result in a copy of the original but fails 
> to do so. It seems to do something to GTK+ which no-one including me, 
> has the first clue how to fix. I have had no luck with rsync so will 
> stop using it.
> 
>     So I will back off to dd which I know works just fine. That will be 
> my next way to copy this Ubuntu 7.10 to another partition. Forget rsync 
> it has bad problems.

Um...what exactly did you *do* with rsync at the command line that it 
didn't work?