Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > At 11:14 PM 9/26/2005, Pablo Halpern wrote: > >I'm having a similar problem. The results of cygcheck.svr are at the end of > >this message. > > > >The symptoms are this: > >1. ssh-add gives these messages when trying to set a passphrase: > > bash% eval $(ssh-agent -s) > > Agent pid 908 > > bash% ssh-add > > Enter passphrase for /home/Pablo/.ssh/id_dsa: > > Error reading response length from authentication socket. > > Error writing to authentication socket. > > Could not add identity: /home/Pablo/.ssh/id_dsa > > I don't see that, although I'm using an RSA(2) key. Do you see the same > thing with RSA keys? Also, I notice that your home directory is mounted as > text. You might want to try mounting at least your .ssh directory as > binary. It's not clear to me that either of these two things are very > significant but they are differences between our two environments. If you > do go the binary mount route, make sure you run 'd2u' on the text files in > the affected directories. I tried different key types and different mounting modes. No help. I figured out the problem (at last) by digging into the LSP stack using Microsoft Anti-spyware. The problem was caused by part of the Earthlink Total-Access package I installed so that I could dial up while away from home. Most likely, it was the Anti-spyware part of the package, although I wasn't able to do a partial un-install. I would guess that one of the following is happening: 1. Earthlink's Anti-Spyware LSP is badly written (most likely) 2. Earthlink's Anti-Spyware believes rsync and ssh-agent to be spyware but isn't telling me. 3. Earthlink's Anti-Spyware doesn't coexist peacefully with Microsoft Antispyware. > >2. rsync hangs at random. Most hangs appear to be with either > >large files (15-20MB) or zero-length files. If it hangs on a file > >once, it will probably hang on the same file on the next try. If I > >delete or manually sync the file, rsync moves on and transfers more > >files before succeeding or hanging again. Intrestingly, it hangs > >MORE often with local transfers than over ssh. > > This sounds to me like the age-old rsync problems. You can read about them > in the email archives. Yes. This problem also went away when I uninstalled Earthlink. We can add Earthlink Total-Access to the list of packages that are not compatible with Cygwin. (Is there such a list anywhere?) When I get around to it, I'll try re-installing Earthlink WITHOUT the anti-spyware component and see if it still interferes. I can't tell you how relieved I am to be able to do automatic synchronization between my home PC and my laptop again. [snip] > >> That said, did you read and follow the following thread to it's > >> resolution? > >> > >> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00418.html> This is the thread that got me wondering about what had installed itself into my LSP stack. I was fearing that it was Norton Antivirus (which I would have been loath to abandon), but had an Aha! moment when I saw the Earthlink entries. The incompatible program was not Aventail, as mentioned in the thread, but the concept was the same. I read that thread before posting but read it again after your response. Thanks for the help. > >Now, the result of cygcheck -svr: > > We ask that you *attach* this to any problem reports you send to the list. > Please don't embed it. I couldn't figure out a way to create an attachment using the web interface to this newsgroup. Sorry. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
