I/O error when deleting files

[Bill Houle]

OK, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for... 

I don't think the link error is caused by my data (I have no symlinks).
For whatever reason, it appears that a blank is leading the file list,
and the 'stat' on NULL is what is causing the link_stat error.

write(1, " b u i l d i n g   f i l".., 23)      = 23
brk(0x00058668)                                 = 0
brk(0x00060668)                                 = 0
lstat64("", 0xFFBEF8D8)                         Err#2 ENOENT
write(2, " l i n k _ s t a t     :".., 39)      = 39

The rsync child then just says an error has occured and tells the
parent to not bother deleting files because of it.

waitid(P_PID, 10233, 0xFFBEF890, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) = 0
    Received signal #18, SIGCLD, in poll() [caught]
      siginfo: SIGCLD CLD_EXITED pid=10233 status=0x000C
poll(0xFFBEF870, 0, 20)                         Err#4 EINTR
waitid(P_ALL, 0, 0xFFBEF3A8, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) = 0
waitid(P_ALL, 0, 0xFFBEF3A8, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) Err#10 ECHILD
setcontext(0xFFBEF558)
poll(0xFFBEF870, 0, 11)                         = 0
waitid(P_PID, 10233, 0xFFBEF890, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) Err#10 ECHILD
time()                                          = 1021666775
write(1, " w r o t e   7 9 8 5 5  ".., 54)      = 54
write(1, " t o t a l   s i z e   i".., 43)      = 43
sigaction(SIGUSR1, 0xFFBEF848, 0xFFBEF8C8)      = 0
sigaction(SIGUSR2, 0xFFBEF848, 0xFFBEF8C8)      = 0
waitid(P_PID, 10233, 0xFFBEF888, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) Err#10 ECHILD
write(2, " r s y n c   e r r o r :".., 55)      = 55

I see that I can turn on "ignore-errors" mode, but that just seems
dangerous if there were ever anything other than the case I am seeing
here. So I guess my question is what's with the lstat64("")??

--bill






> I suggest running truss -f -o trussfile before that command and look for
> the error in the trussfile and see what's happening just before it.  Under
> some circumstances rsync can print that message when a symlink goes
> nowhere, but I'm not sure what the circumstances are.  Perhaps it does that
> because you're using -x, I'm not sure.
> 
> - Dave 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:30:00PM -0700, Bill Houle wrote:
> > /usr/local/bin/rsync \
> >         -axv --delete \
> >         "${MAINDIR}/${FSERVER}/" \
> >         "${MAINDIR}/${TSERVER}/"
> > 
> > Both locations are on the same (non-NFS) partition.
> > 
> > All old files are updated and new files copied, but the orphans
> > are never deleted...
> > 
> > --bill
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > What is the command you are running? 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org 
> > > > [mailto:rsync-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > > > Behalf Of Bill Houle
> > > > Sent: Monday, 1 January 1601 11:00 AM
> > > > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > > > Subject: I/O error when deleting files
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > When I run rsync in "no-op" mode, all appears fine (it knows what to
> > > > copy, what to delete). But when I run it "for real", I get:
> > > > 
> > > > 	building file list ... link_stat  : No such file or 
> > > > directory done
> > > > 	IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
> > > > 
> > > > followed by:
> > > > 
> > > > 	total size is 98117172  speedup is 563.78
> > > > 	rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)
> > > > 
> > > > Any help/pointers -- Solaris 8 on Ultra -- is appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > --bill
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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