On 20-Mar-03, 08:28 (CST), "Andrew J. Schorr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. In rsync 2.5.5, I found that the -vvv flag can cause repeatable
> rsync hangs. Since I was using it to debug a real problem, it
> was very confusing and misleading. But in the end, I determined
> that -vvv itself was often the culprit.
Oh, joy. Even worse than having the debugging option "fix" the bug.
And for the record, I get the hang regardless of my '-v' setting
(anywhere from 0-4 "v"s). Nope, that's not quite true, I've at least
once seen that setting '-vvvv' and *not* re-directing to a file lets
the job run to completion - <GUESS>all the output to a terminal window
affects the timing enough that it doesn't trigger the <GUESS2>race
condition</GUESS2></GUESS>.
> 2. I have a nightly cron job to sync up 2 servers, and rsync gives
> me the following error (or something similar) every night (this is
> the reason I was debugging with -vvv):
>
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 174 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at ../io.c(622)
Nope, I don't get any error message at all, it just stops transferring
data in either direction, until it hits the timeout or I ctrl-C the
client.
> My solution to the problem has been to test the return code from
> rsync and simply rerun the exact same command when I get an error
> return from rsync. Every night I find that the first attempt
> fails after a while, but the second one always works.
I don't have any luck repeating the command -- I get the same problem.
I can work-around by doing one file at a time, but it would be sweet to
actually resolve the problem, because it seems to hit quite a few people
based on the list archive.
Another bit of info: setting --bwlimit doesn't seem to help.
Steve
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