1. Grsynch errors (Jerry Lapham) (Jerry Lapham)

[Jerry Lapham]

On Friday, April 22, 2011 10:49:04 am Brian Wootton wrote:

> On 22/04/11 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > On Monday, April 18, 2011 09:06:53 am Brian Wootton wrote:
> >> >  On 18/04/11 13:00,kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com  wrote:
> >>> >  >  I have a 160GB USB drive called SEA_DISK for backups using
> >>> >  >  Grsynch.  The last week or two I've been getting the following
> >>> >  >  errors - I think - on every file needing to be changed:
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  rsync: mkstemp "/media/SEA_DISK/dataDocs2/nle/MW26/.wALK
> >>> >  >  26.xls.1uKVFl" failed: Read-only file system (30)
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  and
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
> >>> >  >  errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
> >>> >  >  Rsync process exit status: 23
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  After running Grsynch I can't write to SEA_DISK using Dolphin
> >>> >  >  until I turn off the drive and turn it back on.
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  About the same I time, I think, Safely remove 'SEA_DISK' on the
> >>> >  >  Dolphin drop- down also quit working.
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  I'm running Kubuntu 10.10 but the same thing happened when I
> >>> >  >  tried 10.04.
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  Any ideas?
> >>> >  >  
> >>> >  >  	-Jerry
> >> >  
> >> >  for a start:
> >> >  on the command line type:
> >> >  mount     to get the device mount point for your SEA_DISK
> >> >  umount/dev/"SEA_DISK"
> >> >  fsck /dev/sdb1  (substitute whatever mount returned for your USB
> >> >  disc) this should put right any errors on the disk. you may have to
> >> >  put in some flags(man fsck) to get exactly what you want. This
> >> >  should tell you if you have a flaky drive or not. If you're happy
> >> >  with the disc then don't forget to 'mount /dev/whatever' . You may
> >> >  or may not need to 'sudo' this lot ,depends on whether it was
> >> >  mounted by root at boot up or automounter. brian
> > 
> > The disk seems to be OK.  I have no trouble copying files and folders to
> > it after I turn it on.  But I can't write to it after having run grsync
> > or rsync. They seem to be what's making it read-only.
> > 
> > 	-Jerry
> 
> Can't help you there, I took a look at the man page for grsynch some time
> ago and decided there was too much for my ancient brain to absorb so
> I stayed with the mount daemon and remote access to it - seemed to work
> OK for me. Now I've only the one kubuntu machine I can't even try it out
> for you. I seem to remember a -n option where it tells you what it would
> do but doesn't actually do anything. Are you running the sync daemon
> as root or as yourself? Has root only got write permission, or no-one at
> all? how do you recover your permissions on the SEA_DISK after the
> rsync run
> brian

I've been running grsync and rsync as myself.  I just tried running rsync as 
root with the same result.  Before running it, I could write to SEA_DISK.  
Afterwards I can't write to it even as root.  It appears that rsync is what is 
making SEA_DISK read-only.  I make SEA_DISK writable again by powering it off 
and then restarting it.

	-Jerry
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