[answered] syslog error

[jaydot]

got a message from root:

@localhost ~]$
Message from syslogd@localhost at Mon Feb  7 07:53:37 2011 ...
localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error

i recall that i was attempting to port data from a dying drive, which eventually dropped out leaving an incomplete copy.  could this be the event referred to above?

[Old-Polack]

got a message from root:

@localhost ~]$
Message from syslogd@localhost at Mon Feb  7 07:53:37 2011 ...
localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error

i recall that i was attempting to port data from a dying drive, which eventually dropped out leaving an incomplete copy.  could this be the event referred to above?

Sounds logical to me. 

[YouCanToo]

got a message from root:

@localhost ~]$
Message from syslogd@localhost at Mon Feb  7 07:53:37 2011 ...
localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error

i recall that i was attempting to port data from a dying drive, which eventually dropped out leaving an incomplete copy.  could this be the event referred to above?

It means that the drive got enough errors that the OS took it to read-only mode.

[jaydot]

thanks, youcantoo.  the drive drove me to get an upgrade machine.  500gb of uselessness with quite a lot of unbacked up data because this is one lazy beast running the show.  i've managed to get some of the data off; the most valuable, but the rest is not so easy.  it takes forever too.

ah well.  back to backing up regular.

why i wonder, is grsync no longer used for this?  i used to use it all the time.  now it's for networks?