Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-30 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:24:11PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Victor Munoz wrote: > >Both replicas are very large, and the few listed changes showed no > >large files, or so I thought. But it turns out I was wrong, and a 20M > >file was involved. I deleted the cache file, and reconstructed the

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-27 Thread Randy Kramer
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 09:28:49 am Victor Munoz wrote: > Fine, thanks for the speculation and the interest. You're welcome, and good luck! Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:24:11PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Victor Munoz wrote: > > > >So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --progress > >option), and surprise, it stops when 11% transfer is reached. Tried > >with scp, and same magic number: 11% and it stops. > > What happen

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 07:25:41AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > > So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --progress > > option), and surprise, it stops when 11% transfer is reached. Tried > > with scp, and same magic number: 11% and it stops. > > I'm somewhat surprised, because when

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Victor Munoz wrote: >Both replicas are very large, and the few listed changes showed no >large files, or so I thought. But it turns out I was wrong, and a 20M >file was involved. I deleted the cache file, and reconstructed the >mirror, and I finally discovered that unison hangs when this >particul

Re: Fwd: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:10:35PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > I think that I read somewhere that Unison is barely being developed any more > (I'll look for a citation), basically only major bug/security fixes, but no > new features, as I recall. I have been looking for a replacement for it.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:16:49AM +0300, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: > Hi > > On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 06:07:58 Victor Munoz wrote: > > > Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had > > I just wonder, are there any changes on this? If not, should we submit a bug > repo

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Randy Kramer
I've reordered some of your comments for my convenience in responding. On Tuesday 26 July 2011 12:32:18 am Victor Munoz wrote: > Thought you guys who helped me with my original question would like > to know how this evolved. Thank you! > So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --pro

Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-25 Thread Victor Munoz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07:58PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > 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. I few days ago I posted a problem with uniso

Fwd: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-25 Thread Brad Alexander
Sorry, didn't reply to all... --b -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Alexander Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Unison hangs on copy To: Johannes Fichtinger I think that I read somewhere that Unison is barely being developed any more (I'll look for

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-25 Thread Johannes Fichtinger
Hi On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 06:07:58 Victor Munoz wrote: > Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had I just wonder, are there any changes on this? If not, should we submit a bug report in Debian? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Saturday 23 July 2011 11:51:26 am Victor Munoz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > > With very large files, it is not surprising to see the link quiet > > for periods of time while calculations are being done at each end. > In this case, there are no big file

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
Just noticed that my replies today to this thread went with copy to the individual posters and the list... Sorry for the duplicate emails. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:10:12AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > In reviewing /var/log/aptitude I notice that the only dependency of > unison-gtk that was upgraded in the past couple of days was libc6 > (2.13-7 -> 2.13-10), and that was during yesterday's upgrade session > -- just before the

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: > > 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 w

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > 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

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: > Hi Victor > > 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 ke

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Saturday 23 July 2011 08:25:10 am Roger Leigh wrote: > 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.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 07/23/2011 07:36 AM, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: Hi Victor 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.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
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

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-23 Thread Johannes Fichtinger
Hi Victor 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 ma

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:21:11AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Ping is an ICMP (internet control message protocol) and rsync and > unison both use TCP. So not different ports but completely different > protocols. Both are part of IP (Internet Protocol). Got it, not thinking clearly :-) I was a

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Victor Munoz wrote: > Mm... not obviouss this is the case. I have a ping to the router > simultaneously with the unison attempt, and while unison is waiting to > copy files, ping keeps responding, no packet loss. That seems good anyway. > It might be something with the router. Now, I guess ping

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Victor Munoz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:11:40PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > This makes me think that there is a NAT router or other device that is > sometimes losing the virtual circuit between the machines. Starting a > new connection works but the old connection is sometimes idled out? > Usually people run

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Victor Munoz wrote: > ... I have noticed today that I suddenly lose the connection between > both machines. (In fact, I'm writing this at home, where the sid > machine is, and connecting via ssh to the squeeze machine, and I've > had to restart this email twice because the terminal hangs.) So > may

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Victor Munoz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:51:07PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am using 2.27.57 and have not seen the problem. > > Both Sid and Squeeze have unison 2.27.57 available. You might try > downgrading both to 'unison2.27.57' and that seems like it should work > just fine, since it has been working.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Victor Munoz wrote: > I have unison version 2.32.52 in both. So, basically, I don't know > what to do know. > ... > Any ideas? I am using 2.27.57 and have not seen the problem. Both Sid and Squeeze have unison 2.27.57 available. You might try downgrading both to 'unison2.27.57' and that seems li

Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-22 Thread 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