site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com I re-read your previous post several times. Cheers, -n8 --
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_______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On May 7, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote: For example, you wrote: "I booted from the Tiger install DVD, mounted both my drives, and started my copy, being sure to use the path to the up-to-date rsync on my system drive. The result? My copy was a disaster." What's the OS version on that DVD? 10.4.0 presumably, since it was bought the day Tiger was released. OK, this explains that: rsync -E was almost unusable at the time of 10.4. Yes, but as I said, I didn't use the rsync on the DVD, I used the one on my system disk. I booted from the DVD and used something like / Volumes/VolName/usr/bin/rsync to get the 10.4.9 version on my hard drive. I even tried to use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to make sure dynamic libraries came from the right place, but I have no idea if that worked or not. Ok. As I said, the tests started failing on 4/24. Here's the tail of my software update log: 2007-03-14 12:08:14 -0700: Installed "Mac OS X Update (PowerPC)" (10.4.9) 2007-03-31 21:16:10 -0700: Installed "iTunes" (7.1.1) 2007-04-22 23:43:29 -0700: Installed "Security Update 2007-004 (PowerPC)" (1.0) 2007-05-02 14:06:55 -0700: Installed "QuickTime" (7.1.6) I guess I was somewhat mistaken about the chronology -- I installed the update just before my *first* backup attempt (the one that failed). But you can see there was no update on 4/24. Right, but 2007-004v1.0 has been installed April 22th, late in the night. Have you rebooted your laptop immediately after that installation, or have you waited somewhat before rebooting? Did you have lots of open/running applications while installing the update? As I said, I installed it just before backing up my system (which I left going overnight), which involved rebooting from the Tiger DVD to make sure my system wasn't in use during the backup. I have no idea what was running when I installed the update. Anyway, other people tend to relate the problem to Security Update 2007-004 (v1.0 as well as v1.1) too. Could you have a look at: <http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/May// msg00040.html> and subsequent messages? If it's related to SU2007-4 it's a very strange correlation. I was testing for 2 days after that update before the "change" happened. With a bit luck, if you haven't changed the default launch times for the periodic scripts, your wtmp and system.log logs still contain info about reboots (and much more) back to April. Indeed. After checking my logs I can once again verify that there was no reboot on April 24. There was one on the 23'rd at about 3 PM, then one on the 28'th. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com