1. Grsynch errors (Jerry Lapham) (Jerry Lapham)

[Jerry Lapham]

On Friday, April 22, 2011 01:00:18 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:

> On Friday, April 22, 2011 10:49:04 am Brian Wootton wrote:
> > On 22/04/11 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > > On Monday, April 18, 2011 09:06:53 am Brian Wootton wrote:
> > >> >  On 18/04/11 13:00,kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com  wrote:
> > >>> >  >  I have a 160GB USB drive called SEA_DISK for backups using
> > >>> >  >  Grsynch.  The last week or two I've been getting the following
> > >>> >  >  errors - I think - on every file needing to be changed:
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  rsync: mkstemp "/media/SEA_DISK/dataDocs2/nle/MW26/.wALK
> > >>> >  >  26.xls.1uKVFl" failed: Read-only file system (30)
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  and
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see
> > >>> >  >  previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
> > >>> >  >  Rsync process exit status: 23
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  After running Grsynch I can't write to SEA_DISK using Dolphin
> > >>> >  >  until I turn off the drive and turn it back on.
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  About the same I time, I think, Safely remove 'SEA_DISK' on the
> > >>> >  >  Dolphin drop- down also quit working.
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  I'm running Kubuntu 10.10 but the same thing happened when I
> > >>> >  >  tried 10.04.
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  Any ideas?
> > >>> >  >  
> > >>> >  >  	-Jerry
> > >> >  
> > >> >  for a start:
> > >> >  on the command line type:
> > >> >  mount     to get the device mount point for your SEA_DISK
> > >> >  umount/dev/"SEA_DISK"
> > >> >  fsck /dev/sdb1  (substitute whatever mount returned for your USB
> > >> >  disc) this should put right any errors on the disk. you may have to
> > >> >  put in some flags(man fsck) to get exactly what you want. This
> > >> >  should tell you if you have a flaky drive or not. If you're happy
> > >> >  with the disc then don't forget to 'mount /dev/whatever' . You may
> > >> >  or may not need to 'sudo' this lot ,depends on whether it was
> > >> >  mounted by root at boot up or automounter. brian
> > > 
> > > The disk seems to be OK.  I have no trouble copying files and folders
> > > to it after I turn it on.  But I can't write to it after having run
> > > grsync or rsync. They seem to be what's making it read-only.
> > > 
> > > 	-Jerry
> > 
> > Can't help you there, I took a look at the man page for grsynch some time
> > ago and decided there was too much for my ancient brain to absorb so
> > I stayed with the mount daemon and remote access to it - seemed to work
> > OK for me. Now I've only the one kubuntu machine I can't even try it out
> > for you. I seem to remember a -n option where it tells you what it would
> > do but doesn't actually do anything. Are you running the sync daemon
> > as root or as yourself? Has root only got write permission, or no-one at
> > all? how do you recover your permissions on the SEA_DISK after the
> > rsync run
> > brian
> 
> I've been running grsync and rsync as myself.  I just tried running rsync
> as root with the same result.  Before running it, I could write to
> SEA_DISK. Afterwards I can't write to it even as root.  It appears that
> rsync is what is making SEA_DISK read-only.  I make SEA_DISK writable
> again by powering it off and then restarting it.
> 
> 	-Jerry

To make sure it wasn't SEA_DISK, the external USB hard disk, I tried backing 
up to a 4GB USB stick.  It worked maybe 3 or 4 times, then it started acting 
the same as with SEA_DISK -- it makes it read-only.  The problem must be 
grsync/rsync.

	-Jerry
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