Re: [rdiff-backup-users] getting attemp to rename over same inode

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:05 AM, John covici wrote:
> Using v1.2.0 I get this warning along with the following output:

> Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode: /mnt/rdiff_backup/ 
> ccs_backups/home/news/spool/articles/uk/politics/misc/rdiff- 
> backup.tmp.5203 to /mnt/rdiff_backup/ccs_backups/home/news/spool/ 
> articles/uk/politics/misc/997262
> Exception '('home', 'news', 'spool', 'articles', 'uk', 'politics',  
> 'misc', '997262')' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>':


Hi John,

I have made a fix in CVS so that rdiff-backup won't crash in this  
case. If you wish to test the fix yourself, simply replace the  
rorpiter.py file (in Python's site-packages/rdiff-backup/  directory)  
with the one I have attached to this email. The issue that crashed  
rdiff-backup for you is harmless; with the patch I put in CVS, we  
might be able to get a better look at what's going wrong.

However, this problem already indicates that something is probably  
wrong with your underlying filesystem, which is reinforced by the  
error message "Attempt to rename over same inode" -- What type of  
filesystem is /mnt/rdiff_backup? What mount options are you using?  
Does running fsck on it return any errors?


Andrew

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