Network packet read error while dumping the binlog file

I am new to mydumper, after successful installation I took some backups but when I tried to dump to binlog using option -b I got the following error
Network packet read error getting binlog file: mysqld-bin.000001

I am doing the backup on localhost
mydumper version - mydumper-0.5.2
MySQL version - 5.1.67-log Source distribution
OS - CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

root@centos6 mydumper-0.5.2]# mydumper -B abc -o /tmp/mydumperbackup -v 3 -b
** Message: Connected to a MySQL server
** Message: Started dump at: 2013-04-04 02:32:01

** Message: Written master status
** Message: Thread 1 connected using MySQL connection ID 13
** Message: Thread 2 connected using MySQL connection ID 14
** Message: Thread 3 connected using MySQL connection ID 15
** Message: Thread 4 connected using MySQL connection ID 16
** Message: Thread 1 dumping data for `abc`.`tp`
** Message: Thread 2 dumping schema for `abc`.`tp`
** Message: Non-InnoDB dump complete, unlocking tables
** Message: Thread 3 connected using MySQL connection ID 17 (in binlog mode)
** Message: Thread 3 dumping binary log file mysqld-bin.000001
** Message: Thread 4 connected using MySQL connection ID 18 (in binlog mode)
** Message: Thread 4 dumping binary log file mysqld-bin.000002

** (mydumper:9282): CRITICAL **: Error: binlog: Network packet read error getting binlog file: mysqld-bin.000001
** Message: Thread 3 shutting down

** (mydumper:9282): CRITICAL **: Error: binlog: Network packet read error getting binlog file: mysqld-bin.000002
** Message: Thread 4 shutting down
** Message: Thread 2 connected using MySQL connection ID 19 (in binlog mode)
** Message: Thread 2 dumping binary log file mysqld-bin.000003

** (mydumper:9282): CRITICAL **: Error: binlog: Network packet read error getting binlog file: mysqld-bin.000003
** Message: Thread 2 shutting down
** Message: Thread 1 shutting down
** Message: Finished dump at: 2013-04-04 02:32:02

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ls output of the the backup directory

total 164K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Apr 4 01:58 ./
4.0K dr-xr-x---. 19 root root 4.0K Apr 4 02:57 ../
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 Apr 4 02:32 abc.tp-schema.sql
144K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142K Apr 4 02:32 abc.tp.sql
4.0K drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Apr 4 02:32 binlog_snapshot/
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 Apr 4 02:32 metadata

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cat metadata
Started dump at: 2013-04-04 02:32:01
SHOW MASTER STATUS:
        Log: mysqld-bin.000003
        Pos: 106

Finished dump at: 2013-04-04 02:32:02