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

[Brian Wootton]

On 07/05/11 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> When I had a 2nd linux machine I used to use rcp/scp, might be worth a look.
> Now when copying files to/from a win7 machine I use dolphin>network and click
> on 'add network folder',I just have to fight win7 to get the share set-up going,
> then use drag&drop. I'm sure this would work for linux just as well with a little
  fiddling with exportfs maybe. If you can get this to work for you,
might be worth you putting in a bug report against rsync.
brian
> , I jut
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