rsync - Feb 2008 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5246] New: rsync fails to transfer some files

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5246

           Summary: rsync fails to transfer some files
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.9
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: david-bo@dsv.su.se
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


When I use rsync to sync my music library (mp3s typically have spaces and other
slightly odd characters in their names) from one intel-Mac running latest
version of Mac OS X 10.4 to an external firewire drive connected to a PPC-Mac
with the same OS version, rsync succesfully transfered a few hundreds of new
file and verified several thousands of old files. However, it choked on a few
folders with the following error message:

building file list ... 
8435 files to consider
./
.DS_Store
       15364 100%   13.98MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=8433/8435)
Kid Down/
/Kid Down/.DS_Store
6148 100%  136.45kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=7745/8435)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/Volumes/music/Tied & Tickled
trio/Aelita/08. Aelita 3.mp3": Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/Volumes/music/Tremolo Beer
Gut/.DS_Store": Input/output error (5)
Tremolo Beer Gut/From The Vinyl Archives Of/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/Volumes/music/Tremolo Beer Gut/From The
Vinyl
Archives Of" failed: Input/output error (5)
*** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***
Tremolo Beer Gut/The Inebriated Sound Of The Tremolo Beer Gut/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/Volumes/music/Tremolo Beer Gut/The
Inebriated
Sound Of The Tremolo Beer Gut" failed: Input/output error (5)
*** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***
Emmaboda 2007.3/


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------- Comment #1 from matt@mattmccutchen.net  2008-02-06 16:11 CST -------
An "Input/output error" generally indicates a problem with the
filesystem,
operating system, or hardware, not with rsync.  If you "stat" the
problematic
files manually at the shell, does that succeed?  Can "cp" copy the
files?


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------- Comment #2 from david-bo@dsv.su.se  2008-02-07 16:47 CST -------
I could copy the files both with cp and using the GUI. I could also stat the
files without any obvious error.

Furthermore, I tested copying the directories in the receiving location, They
where, not surprisingly, empty and duplicating them using cp appeared to behave
normal.

Both the source and destination directories are located on AES128 encrypted
HFS+ disk images (.dmg) but I have had this sync job running every day using
cron without any problems until now.


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------- Comment #3 from matt@mattmccutchen.net  2008-02-07 20:09 CST -------
To be clear: can you successfully run the same "mkdir" and
"stat" calls in the
destination that are failing for rsync?  Also, you might try fsck-ing the
destination filesystem or even rebuilding it completely.

This is not the first report of rsync incurring I/O errors that other
file-copying programs don't.  Still, I don't see a way to address the
problem
in rsync; it's not as if a change to rsync will make the errors go away.


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------- Comment #4 from david-bo@dsv.su.se  2008-02-09 10:23 CST -------
I never tested mkdir on the remote system but stat was fine. However, after
fscking the filesystem on the destination the problem was solved. A little
weird, isn't it?


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matt@mattmccutchen.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME




------- Comment #5 from matt@mattmccutchen.net  2008-02-09 12:16 CST -------
Good, so the problem was not with rsync.


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