olpc-update -v 8.2-766 gets fakeroot error

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

Attempting to run olpc-update -v 8.2-766 from root gets :
"@ERROR: Unexpected server greeting: fakeroot error, while creating  
message channels: Invaalid argument
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c  
(1383) [receiver=2.6.9] ... "

This is from build 656 using olpc-update version 2.7 running from root.