file has vanished

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:18:16PM -0200, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
> El Viernes 11 Enero 2008, Chuck Anderson escribió:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:30:14PM -0200, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
> > > Sorry, I meant this line specificly:
> > > > > > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
> > >
> > > It looks like it's not deleting the vanished files.
> >
> > The IO error always accompanies the "file has vanished" messages.  I
> > would assume that the IO error message is a result of the "file has
> > vanished" messages.
> 
> And I assumed the other way around :)
> 
> AFAIK, "file has vanished" means the file is no longer on the server from 
> which rsync is downloading, so my guess was rsync schedules them for deleting 
> but when it tries to, it can't.
> 
> But if you're sure it's not a permissions problem (or maybe a disk problem? - 
> yet another wild guess), we'll have to wait for some of the rsync gurus to 
> show up.

No, it's not something local at all:

$ ls -l 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21954697 Dec 11 11:27 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21960477 Jan  6 11:44 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

$ rsync rsync://download1.fedora.redhat.com/fedora-enchilada/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/ | grep 8King
file has vanished: "linux/updates/7/SRPMS/8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm" (in fedora-enchilada)
-rw-r--r--    21960477 2008/01/06 11:44:01 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

$ ls -l 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21954697 Dec 11 11:27 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21960477 Jan  6 11:44 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

$ rm -f 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm 

$ ls -l 8Kingdoms*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21960477 Jan  6 11:44 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

$ rsync rsync://download1.fedora.redhat.com/fedora-enchilada/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/ | grep 8King
file has vanished: "linux/updates/7/SRPMS/8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm" (in fedora-enchilada)
-rw-r--r--    21960477 2008/01/06 11:44:01 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

$ ls -l 8Kingdoms*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21960477 Jan  6 11:44 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

See, the error message is the same whether the "vanished" file exists 
locally or not.