On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: > Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011 schrieb Victor Munoz: > > > Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had > > lenny until today morning, and the other was sid. I was using > > apt-pinning to keep both unison versions compatible. > > > > Yesterday night I was able to sync both machines for the last time. > > Then, today morning, I was not. It connects to the server, it > > recognizes the changes, and it offers me all the changes for approval. > > Then, when it has to start copying, it just waits for ever, and no > > progress is done. > > From yesterday morning on I see exactly the same problem on my machine. I am > running latest SID here. On another machine with SID updated the last time > one > week ago running unison 2.32.52-3+b1 unison works perfectly.
I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN. Note that sometimes it /does/ come back--you just have to wait, possibly several tens of minutes. This can happen if you have changed a big (multi-GiB in size) file, and it wants to "reconcile the changes". But it can appear to be stuck. I have on occasion had to resort to deleting the cache/index files in ~/.unison/(arb|frp)* and getting it to rebuild them from scratch on both the client and server. Note that version 2.40.61 (not in Debian) fixes quite a few of these problems, but is still not perfect. But if you have the time to build it, it's a big improvement. The build scripts are slightly buggy though--it took me a while to work out and fix! Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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