I saw this in the archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg06880.html I'm having the same problem with samba hanging, except it's not very re-creatable. I have a script that runs rsync, sleeps for 30 seconds and runs rsync again. It hangs about once every 24 hours. The script runs a rsync push over ssh. I've been running the same rsync scripts for 18 months and this problem has just started this week. I'm running it on Red Hat 7.3 it's rsync 2.5.4 and openssh 3.1p1 I didn't notice this starting after any particular package upgrade but if it helps the recent errata that I've installed include glibc-2.1.3-29, kernel-2.18.27, samba and sendmail. Here is the errata list if it turns out something else caused this. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh73-errata.html Does anybody have any suggestions? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster, PittsburghLIVE.com
I have rsync server installed on a Win2k server and a remote rsync client that is also a Win2k server. This configuration has been working for several weeks now without any problems. I have a batch file scheduled to run each night to send updates to the rsync server and it normally takes about a half hour to run. Earlier this week, the job didn't finish. The job started but it hung at "building file list ... Done". I stopped the job and ran it from a dos session and it ran just fine. However, I think I was just lucky because I've tried it several more times and haven't been successful. However, I can run shorter jobs and everything behaves just fine. I compared the contents of the source and destination and find a difference of about 20 files as far as the quantity goes. So, I know that someone didn't dump a bunch of stuff out there. Any ideas what I should look at. Thanks, Mike Winfrey