/var/log/messages doesn't contain anything suspicious. In another forum someone else suggested I try doing an rsync locally via 127.0.0.1 to see if that works. It did. So this seems to specifically have to do with going over the wired NIC. The loaded kernel module is r8169.
I'll test with Gentoo minimal or SystemRescueCD later to see if the problem exists cross distribution on the HP. On the Acer, I ran the 32-bit version of Studio64 (another Debian based AV production distro) and I had no trouble syncing data from one of my other desktops with rsync. Sadly I can't recall pushing data out of the Acer, so that's not much of an answer. I'll see what happens with one of these other distros and post back later.
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Originally Posted by zaxxon
Did anything suspicous show up i /var/log/messages?
When I read it right you always used Ubuntu 9.04 on those Notebooks?
What about trying a different OS ie. distribution than Ubuntu 9.04?
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I also tried stopping sysklogd, moving /var/log/messages to /var/log/message.old and then restarting before doing another rsync test. The system locks up and writes nothing to /var/log/messages. The only message before the crash is the restart of sysklogd. The next set of messages is from the reboot after the crash. So unfortunately the system seems to freeze well before it can save any info to the log.
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaxxon
Did anything suspicous show up i /var/log/messages?
When I read it right you always used Ubuntu 9.04 on those Notebooks?
What about trying a different OS ie. distribution than Ubuntu 9.04?
---------- Post updated at 12:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:26 AM ----------
OK... a little more testing and digging around and I've gotten some new info. It was recommended that I try doing the rsync to the laptop's eth0 IP address. So I did and the rsync worked fine. The only time it becomes a problem is when I try to transfer data out of the laptop over the network.
Seeing that I have the laptop here at work with me now, I decided that this is different networking hardware, worth a shot to try it here just to rule out the switches at home. Same problem transferring to my workstation (Gentoo on there).
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The CPU in the system is an Intel Core 2 Duo 7550 running a 2.26 GHz.
The SATA controller is an Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
There are six SATA ports detected (in dmesg) ata1 through ata6
The system drive is ata1.00 which is a Western Digital WD3200BEKT-60F3T1
The kernel is using libata version 3.0
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