rsync - Apr 2011 - IO error encountered, skipping file deletion - WTF?

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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On Tue 05 Apr 2011, travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org wrote:
> 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

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:18 PM,  <travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org>
wrote:
> 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..