IO error encountered, skipping file deletion

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IO error encountered, skipping file deletion - WTF?

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travis+

2011-04-05 23:18:48 UTC

Anyone know what this is supposed to mean?

366305 files to consider
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

I keep getting this, and so it refuses to delete any files from a mirror.

But what is the supposed I/O error?

Can we have it give us some kind of clue?

dmesg doesn't show any clues.

-vv --stats --progress doesn't help much.

I suppose I could strace/ktrace it, but is it local or remote? I can't even tell where to start.

rsync should give us a better error message.

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paul+ (Paul Slootman)

2011-04-06 09:44:45 UTC

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Post by travis+
Anyone know what this is supposed to mean?
366305 files to consider
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
I keep getting this, and so it refuses to delete any files from a mirror.
But what is the supposed I/O error?
Can we have it give us some kind of clue?

It probably already does.
Unreadable files/directories (for e.g. permissions reasons, it doesn't
have to be a hardware IO error) will cause this.

Google will show numerous examples and how to fix those.

Paul

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Wayne Davison

2011-04-06 15:36:48 UTC

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Post by travis+
366305 files to consider
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

Is that to an rsync daemon? If so, check the daemon's log for an
error. The daemon may have decided to just log the error and not send
it to the client.

..wayne..