Update: Sometimes it dies randomly and sometimes it dies on a specific file. If I copy the file manually, it works. The file shows no signs of corruption on the micro SD card. Also, the micro SD card has a FAT32 filesystem.
Christopher de Vidal On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Christopher de Vidal <cbdevidal....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using rsync 3.0.9-1 to copy several directories to 32GB micro SD > cards in both WinXP and Win7. I randomly get this error message; > Please help me to debug it: > rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 127 bytes to socket > [generator]: Broken pipe (32) > > I've got rsync on an infinite while loop so it keeps retrying, and it > copies a little more each time, dying at different places each time. > > It has happened on all of my SD cards and with multiple SD card > readers/phones/tablets, copying from two different computers. The only > constant is the hard drive (moved from one computer to the other) but > it's not exhibiting other symptoms of early failure. The directories > are various sizes but one of the directories is only 231MB with 417 > files/7 folders. The smallest file is only a few bytes and the largest > file is 109MB. > > Here's the command which syncs the 231MB directory: > rsync --modify-window=10 --recursive --times --verbose --delete > --timeout=10 --human-readable --progress --omit-dir-times > --no-compress --inplace --partial --bwlimit=1000 > "Appropriate_technology" "/cygdrive/f/C" > > I added --no-compress --inplace --partial --bwlimit=1000 after > searching Google. No good. > > I have multiple commands like these for multiple directories. When I > put just this command in a loop by itself, it works, but when I put > multiple commands, one of them will randomly generate that error > message. > > My .bashrc and .bash_profile are untouched from the install, as are > /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile, etc. I'm certain I haven't tweaked > my environment. Just a typical install. > > Ran checkdisk on the drive before attempting again. > > Cygwin setup version 2.774 > Bash version 4.1.10-4 > base-cygwin 3.1-1 > cygwin 1.7.17-1 > cygwin1.dll version 1.7.17 > Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 > Intel E2200 2.20GHz Dual Core CPU > 4GB RAM > Not swapping or maxed CPU or anything. > > Christopher de Vidal -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
