[Techtalk] [solved] drush sql-sync fails with 'Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error'

[Carla Schroder]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:08:51 +0100
James Sutherland <james at deadnode.org> wrote:

> If you still have the system where it's failing, have you tried
> running the import command under 'strace'? It's a bit of brute force,
> but the odds are you will find a particular system call which is
> failing somewhere: a file it's looking for, a request for memory that
> fails, something like that. Maybe Ubuntu has something in a different
> place in that version, or a different library version, or...
> 
> Worthless error messages like "failed" or "error" are one of my pet
> hates in cases like this, but all too common, so I've found strace
> very useful: often, as soon as you find it's looking for a particular
> file in the wrong place, or needs more memory or similar, it's easy
> to fix. You'll probably want the -ff (follow fork) switch, maybe one
> or two others.
> 

That's a good suggestion, and I have an installation in a VM I can try
this on. It is very frustrating to not be able to see what's going on,
and I share your peeve at unhelpful error messages.