Solved Rsync error Undefined symbol "locale_charset"

exeter

exeter

I get the error when I try to sync one system with another. I have searched online for a solution but nothing relevant to FreeBSD has come to light.

Full error message:
root@pr5:/home/user2 # rsync -avzn /usr/home user2@192.168.0.4:/home
ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/rsync: Undefined symbol "locale_charset"
(user2@192.168.0.4) Password for user2@pr4.blank.blank:
(user2@192.168.0.4) Password for user2@pr4.blank.blank:
(user2@192.168.0.4) Password for user2@pr4.blank.blank:
user2@192.168.0.4: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

Originating system:
uname -a
FreeBSD pr5.blank.blank 13.2-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64
Receiving system:
uname -a
FreeBSD pr4.blank.blank 14.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64

Note to self, the rsync command line is incorrect. Trailing slashes are required for the desired results and root privileges are required to create some files.
 
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Investigate which base system is out of date:
Code: 
$ ls -l /usr/lib/libc.a
$ ls -ltr /usr/local/lib | tail
$ ls -l `which rsync`

Of course you can first identify which computer is the one affected by calling rsync with no parameters on each.
 
The client pr5 is on 13.2-RELEASE which is EOL since June 2024.
The server pr4 is on 14.2-RELEASE.
is it possible that the version of rsync (which is probably old) that runs on the client is problematic?
Maybe rsyncd on pr4 would synchronize just fine with an updated client/system.
 
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