On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:34:37 -0700 wes <[email protected]> dijo: >On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:26 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >wrote:
>> rsync: getcwd(): Input/output error (5) rsync error: errors selecting >> input/output files, dirs (code 3) at util.c(1056) [Receiver=3.1.1] >I don't know about the numbers, but "input/output error" typically >means it's having problems reading something from a disk. The fact >that it's not giving you a sensible error message indicates that it's >a really unusual problem. "getcwd()" is a function that returns the >current working directory, so I'd start there. Do the commands >ls /media/jjj/Movies/ and ls /media/jjj/Synology return normal-looking >output? Last night when I first posted the question it was too late for me to think to add some details: The 'from' directory is a Mediasonic enclosure containing 14TB of storage, of which all but 4.5TB is used. The destination is a Synology NAS with 16TB of storage. They are mounted at /media/jjj/Movies and /media/jjj/Synology, respectively. There is a text file 'rsync_exclusions' which lists just 'lost+found.' Just now I tried 'ls -la' while in /media/jjj/Movies and got the following error: 'ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error'. So then I added the path to the command and it worked. And I can drag and drop, and add or delete files with the GUI (Nautilus, Thunar). Clearly, the problem is the Mediasonic, and I know part of what is going on. The Mediasonic has two connectors: USB 3.1 Gen 1 and eSATA, right next to each other on the back of the case. I always used the USB connector, but recently it failed, and the enclosure is out of warranty, so I bought an eSATA cable with an eSATA to USB adapter for the end that goes into the computer. Perhaps the eSATA jack on the Mediasonic is now also failing. But I don't understand why the drive continues to work fine for most things - as I write this a torrent client is reading files without a problem, and the GUI file managers also work fine. Last night from the command line I used ddrescue to write an ISO file to the Mediasonic for a damaged DVD, which also worked fine. But the ls and rsync commands still fail. That is a mystery. And what to do about it is also a mystery. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
