rsync errors (selinux?)

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

For several years I've been doing an rsync across-the-lan backup for
home directories.  All has worked well until recently (well, since the
fedup to f20 last night).  Now backups are failing with an inscrutable
rsync error.  While the errors mention selinux, I don't see any errors
in either the sending or receiving machines /var/log/secure logfiles.

    exclude="
    --exclude=.gvfs
    --exclude=simplelock
    --exclude=.popmail.lock
    --exclude=SingletonLock
    --exclude=SingletonCookie
    --exclude=SingletonSocket
    "

    rsync -axHAX  --log-file=/var/log/rsync.log --log-file-format="%t [%p] $host %o
%f %l" --delete --delete-excluded $exclude /home/ $host:/home/

    /var/log/rsync.log:
    ...
    2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/record.baseB"","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
    2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/termlist.baseA"","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
    2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/dotfiles-f19/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/termlist.baseB"","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
    2013/11/24 09:35:21 [15417] rsync: rsync_xal_set:
lremovexattr(""/home/wolfgang/hackbin/monitor-layout"","security.selinux")
failed: Permission denied (13)
    2013/11/24 09:35:23 [15417] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(634)
[sender=3.1.0pre1]

Any ideas what's up and what I need to do to get this working again?

-wolfgang