found that rsync 2.50 packaged as openPKG rsync-2.5.0-1.0.1.src.rpm had this problem when compiled with redhat gcc 2.96 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: rsync backup hangs at boot Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:10:55 -0500 From: John Griessen <john_g@cibolo.com> To: <rsync@lists.samba.org> rsync seems to work fine copying from the running system. Files match as far as a random check. I've been hoping to simplify life by rsyncing from the running system to have a bootable backup. Most conversations on the list suggest this is easy, and I've gotten it to happen, and now I've forgotten to do some detail.... ( /etc/fstab is corrected to refer to the device name of the drive that is booted by grub) here is my output and rsync script: from dmesg: ================================================everything was fine until autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. ds: no socket drivers loaded! VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected s