rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 03.02.2011 13:39, schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 09:06:16 Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> I think the first step will be to run the rsync command locally, without
>> ssh and use the NFS share as destination with an ordinary user (i.e.
>> anne). If this is working you can try to invoke ssh (if necessary).
>
> This is basically how I've tried to do it - I got rid of everything except
> this line -
>
> rsync --exclude-from=/home/anne/bup-data_exclude.txt -auvzr /home/anne/*
> /mnt/server_home/anne/

The -z parameter does not make any sense if you copy locally. Can you 
try this with --dry-run and -av as parameter? (You don't need -r if you 
set -a)

What happens if you try this from the console without kde running? Are 
there any files opened from /mnt/server_home/anne in your running 
programs (lsof | grep server_home)? What do the logfiles say 
(/var/log/messages or dmesg)?

I have a similar solution but I use a script started from startkde at 
login before starting the kde environment (from .kde/env) and at logoff 
(from .kde/shutdown). But I use kerberos as SingleSignOn and with this I 
don't have the problem with the ssh-keys. At logon I sync from the 
server to the client and at logout the other way around. So I take care 
that there is no kde process running at sync time.

Martin

>
> I don't think it comes much simpler than that, but I still hit the problem of
> freezing, and so far nothing has given me a clue what's causing it.
>
> I run this as anne - both when I run it in the script, and when testing by
> simply running it in konsole.  I own the directories to which it needs to
> write.  Yesterday I carefully changed everything in the backup back from being
> owned by nobody to being owned by me.  I still see all the chgrp "operation
> not permitted" messages, but now it doesn't show me any files at all - it
> looks as though it stops earlier than it did.
>
> Time to reboot, since neither konsole nor file managers (or kwrite/kdate) are
> available to me.
>
> Anne
>
> Anne
>
>
>
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