I tried to narrow down the problem by re-building unison with OCamL 4.05
on my Focal (20.04) client (no ocaml deb package installed):

- Downloaded OCamL 4.05.0, ran make and make install
$ which ocamlopt
/usr/local/bin/ocamlopt
$ ocamlopt -v
The OCaml native-code compiler, version 4.05.0
Standard library directory: /usr/local/lib/ocaml

- Downloaded sources of unison 2.48.4, ran make ('make world' or 'make world 
opt' didn't seem to make any difference)
$ ls -l ./src/unison
-rwxr-xr-x 1 meinhard v5 5038200 May 20 14:50 ./src/unison
$ file ./src/unison
./src/unison: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), 
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, 
BuildID[sha1]=cddb0691b6b9721087be3f2f6f4f2397f57f4171, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, 
with debug_info, not stripped
$ ldd ./src/unison
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffda03f4000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f97aa540000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f97aa3f1000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f97aa3eb000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f97aa1f9000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f97aa8b8000)
$ ./src/unison -version
unison version 2.48.4

Yet no luck when syncing to my Bionic server, even though the error message is 
very different:
$ ./src/unison <target>
[...]
Looking for changes
Uncaught exception Failure("input_value: ill-formed message")
Raised at file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/lwt/lwt.ml", line 
126, characters 16-23
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/lwt/generic/lwt_unix_impl.ml",
 line 102, characters 8-23
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/update.ml" 
(inlined), line 2096, characters 2-69
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/uitext.ml", line 
700, characters 16-56
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/uitext.ml", line 
788, characters 6-90
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/uitext.ml", line 
810, characters 19-66
Called from file 
"/data01/meinhard/Scratch/Software/Unison/unison-2.48.4/src/uitext.ml", line 
870, characters 21-43

Not having any clue about OCamL, I don't know what causes this error -
the source file lwt.ml doesn't look suspicious in any way at the
incriminated line.

Any help I can further provide to understand and fix the problem, please
let me know. (For the moment I'll keep OCamL 4.05 and unison 2.48-4
sources around...)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1868502

Title:
  Synchronization with earlier Ubuntu versions or a recent Debian
  version fails

Status in unison package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Any synchronization I want to do with my server (Debian buster) fails
  with the following message:

  > Fatal error: Server: Fatal error during unmarshaling (input_value: 
ill-formed message),
  > possibly because client and server have been compiled with 
differentversions of the OCaml compiler.

  Indeed, buster uses OCaml 4.05.0, focal uses 4.08.1. eoan used 4.05.0,
  as did the prior versions, including bionic, which all still
  synchronize fine. The current Windows version also synchronizes with
  that version.

  Although intentionally using an old software version for compatibility
  is not a good thing, in this case it might be necessary. The whole
  point of unison is its interoperability.

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