rsync to my external eSATA HD is crashing/freezing my system...
Morgan Read
mstuff at read.org.nz
Sun Mar 25 14:32:01 UTC 2018
On 19/03/18 14:01, Morgan Read wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I've been running the following command, first in fc20 and then now
> (since the beginning of March) in fc26:
> now=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"); sudo rsync -ahuAESX -vi /home/
> /run/media/readlegal/Backup/home >
> /run/media/readlegal/Backup/rsync-changes_$now
>
> Since the move to fc26, this command has caused the complete
> freeze/crash of the system. I tried it under multi-user non-graphic
> mode in case it was something to do with new graphics systems (don't
> know why). The output of the above always stops at:
> sending incremental file list
> .d..t...... Music/FLACs/Various_Artists/Temple_Sampler/
> >f+++++++++
> Music/FLACs/Various_Artists/Temple_Sampler/13-brian_mcneill-the_butterfly_chain.flac
>
>
> (total 183 bytes file size, always)
>
> By complete freeze/crash I mean:
> * hard-drive light indicates spinning, but no noise (activity)
> * unable to ssh in
> * unable to ping
> * in multi-user text, I'm first able to switch to another login console,
> but then unable to progress past the login password; after switching to
> other consoles, the original login screen attempt has gone blank other
> than a blinking cursor top left
> * in graphic mode, there's no (inter)activity whatsoever possible -
> though screen has desktop on it
> * the only apparent solution is a hard reset
>
> The external drive is a WD 750GB hard-drive in a StarTech.com external
> hard-drive caddy connected via eSATA cable to an old Dell Vostro 3500.
>
> Any help or suggestions debugging this would be really appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
> Morgan.
>> Did you check the drive for SMART info/errors? Sounds to me like a
>> hardware problem.
>>
>> bye Fabi
Thanks Fabian for coming back to me with that - unfortunate, I don't
think the problems is quite so easily solved as getting a new hard-drive :-(
As I mentioned above, all was going well until the upgrade from f20 to
f26 - any help would be really appreciated as I'm without backup and
this is failure leaves me just a tad worried...
Here's the output from smartctl:
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64]
(local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital RE2 Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD7500AYYS-01RCA0
Serial Number: WD-WCAPT0894689
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2ac2bb6df
Firmware Version: 30.04G30
User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is: Sun Mar 25 14:27:01 2018 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine
completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (15960) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 198) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail
Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 191 189 021 Pre-fail
Always - 7425
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 184
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 200 200 051 Old_age
Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 062 062 000 Old_age
Always - 28012
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age
Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 253 051 Old_age
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 81
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 23
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 184
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 134 108 000 Old_age Always
- 18
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 051 Old_age
Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 27954
-
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
--
Morgan Read
UNITED KINGDOM
Em: <email:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz>
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