@Miriam - thanks for the check of this case (FYI we are trying to recheck many old forgotten bugs). Seems this one is a great candidate for a fix now since we have a testcase, a fix and interested community.
Given this is open for quite some time there is no need to rush it, but as time permits it would be great to come up with something to get this case forward. I agree that it thereby shall go onto our todo list and we will look for someone to work on it for a backport-try and a PPA for this. ** Also affects: rsync via https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11166 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsync in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1528921 Title: rsync hangs on select(5, [], [4], [], {60, 0} Status in rsync: Unknown Status in rsync package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in rsync source package in Bionic: New Status in rsync source package in Focal: New Bug description: In the last few months my home directory backup stopped completing. I've been able to reproduce the problem on a single subdirectory although I had to add the --debug=all flag to reproduce it on that smaller directory. Specifically, this command never completes: rsync --debug=all -avz /tmp/html2 /tmp/rsynctest/ The html2 directory is a copy of gnuradio-3.7.8.1/build/docs/doxygen/html . When I strace the command, I see this: write(1, "sender finished /tmp/html2/atsc_"..., 58sender finished /tmp/html2/atsc__interleaver_8h__incl.md5 ) = 58 write(1, "send_files(338, /tmp/html2/atsc_"..., 59send_files(338, /tmp/html2/atsc__interleaver_8h__incl.png) ) = 59 open("html2/atsc__interleaver_8h__incl.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=264657, ...}) = 0 write(1, "html2/atsc__interleaver_8h__incl"..., 37html2/atsc__interleaver_8h__incl.png ) = 37 read(3, "\211PNG\r\n\32\n\0\0\0\rIHDR\0\0\n\253\0\0\2\233\10\6\0\0\0h\242\""..., 262144) = 262144 select(6, [5], [4], [5], {60, 0}) = 2 (in [5], out [4], left {59, 999996}) read(5, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\240\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\240\0\0\0"..., 95) = 95 write(4, "r\311\0\7\177\377\232\237\264\272e\300\300\240\316\264&\314\301\252*\37\256y\225g\373^\315j\370\350"..., 51574) = 51574 select(5, [], [4], [], {60, 0}) = 1 (out [4], left {59, 999997}) write(4, "\7\320\0\7\177\377\234|\7X\223Y\273\255c\27\25f\306\212\202\214#E\272\212t\1\225A\fU"..., 53259) = 53259 select(5, [], [4], [], {60, 0} The select command times out over and over. I get the same behavior when trying to back up my entire home directory but I don't need the --debug=all flag in that case. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 apt-cache policy rsync rsync: Installed: 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.1.0-2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: rsync 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-74.118-generic 3.13.11-ckt30 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-74-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Wed Dec 23 09:44:17 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-18 (1922 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1) SourcePackage: rsync UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-12-27 (361 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rsync/+bug/1528921/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp