Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2021-11-23 Thread Baptiste Jonglez
Hello Bastian, Many thanks for the link, it does indeed look like the exact same bug! So, this turns out to be a longstanding bug in libfile-rsyncp-perl. I see two ways to fix this problem in Debian: - update libfile-rsyncp-perl to 0.76 in buster. This seems quite unlikely but I'm not 100%

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2021-11-19 Thread Bastian Schmidt
Hello, I also had a reproducible failure on a full backup of a debian 11 pc, which worked with rsync 3.2.2 but failed with rsync 3.3.3.At some point during the backup file contents ended up the the backuppc transfer log and either the backup stalled or got so slow that it never finished. I

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2021-11-17 Thread Baptiste Jonglez
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > Given this behaviour, it seems likely that rsync ends up running the > "noop_io_until_death()" function and loops there forever. > > Reverting f9bb8f76ee on top of the Debian package indeed fixes the issue > for us on this

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2021-11-17 Thread Baptiste Jonglez
Hello, TL;DR: we experience the same bug using backuppc, and found upstream rsync commit f9bb8f76ee is the culprit. Unfortunately the bug only occurs on some debian 11 machines, not all. We are seeing the same problem when using backuppc to backup a debian 11 machine: the backup never finishes,

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2020-11-14 Thread Andre Klärner
Hi all, I also face this issue, and tried the last versions of rsync. The problem was introduced in rsync_3.2.3-1, downgrading to 3.2.2-2 works. Best regards, Andre signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2020-09-05 Thread Pelzi
Hi again, > […] > Because of the "errors with program diagnostics" I would have expected > more messages... > > It would be most helpful if you could follow the instructions on > https://rsync.samba.org/issues.html especially de second half of > question 3. So I did: sh-5.0$ rsync -vvv

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2020-09-03 Thread Pelzi
Hi Paul, thanks for the fast answer! "Paul Slootman" p...@debian.org – 3. September 2020 16:27 [...] >> opening connection using: ssh -l root localhost rsync --server --sender >> -vvvlHogDtprxe.iLsfxCIvu -B2048 --numeric-ids . /var/lib/lxc (12 args) > > How are you invoking rsync? Please give

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2020-09-03 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 03 Sep 2020, Andreas Feldner wrote: > 2) rsync test run > > -- rsync stdout > opening connection using: ssh -l root localhost rsync --server --sender > -vvvlHogDtprxe.iLsfxCIvu -B2048 --numeric-ids . /var/lib/lxc (12 args) How are you invoking rsync? Please give the exact command line,

Bug#969463: rsync: fails reproducible but unexplained on a specific volume, breaks horribly when started by BackupPC

2020-09-03 Thread Andreas Feldner
Package: rsync Version: 3.2.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I believe the problem started with the latest update of the rsync package end of 08/2020. A previously working setup of backuppc reproducibly fails for a specific host and specific directory