I must thank my friend Cynsa Bonorris for this one.

heyo folks:  if you've ever tried to scp from a 7.2 box and received the
following error 

scp: warning, ssh_packet_wrapper_input: invalid packet
received:  len 1416127780 closing the offending input channel.

I've found the solution, and it's very stupid.  for some reason scp as
compiled for 7.2 has trouble swallowing ultra-long rc files upon login.  
Reduce the size of .bashrc and other files that it references
upon login and it should work.

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