On Thu 07 Apr 2005, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:
>
> Same problem here, rsync seems to hang" but as an strace show, there's a
> time-out after a while
>
> | select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
>
> I invoke rsync from cron via the rsnapshot script, but it makes no
> difference invoking it from a shell.
>
> Notice that I get the problem doing remote ssh pulls as well as local
> sync's, on different partitions as well as on the same partition.
>
> my version was = 2.6.3-2_i386
>
> I'm not sure what triggered the bug, I vaguely recall that I went
> through an apt-get upgrade last week on this Sarge/testing system, but
> it was a long time since I last did that, so I'm not sure if rsync got
> upgraded at the time.
>
> Then I noticed that there was a new version in Unstable: 2.6.4-1.
>
> After installing this one, the problem went away. Note that I only
> upgraded rsync on the 'pulling server', where I start the proces.
The current 2.6.4 version does indeed have extra code to prevent
timeouts happening, however that should only take effect when both sides
of the transfer has at least version 2.6.4 and when the --timeout option
is used...
Of course, there have been many bug fixes as well, which may have solved
the original problem; I can't find any clear reference about this in the
NEWS file however.
Paul Slootman
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