Re: Windows XP 5.1.2600/Rsync freezes and does not copy any files

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, David Secret wrote:

> I was trying to tunnel a file transfer via SSH from a Windows XP 5.1.2600
> machine to a Windows 2003 machine, it seemed SSH was freezing but after
> further testing rsync seems completely incapable of operation.  Doing a
> simple:
>
> $ ls /tmp/a
> a.txt b.txt c.txt
>
> cd /tmp
> rsync -r -vvvvv a b
> cmd= machine= user= path=b
> cmd=. b
> (rsync then does NOTHING for hours.)
> (Hitting ^C results in:)
> _exit_cleanup(code=20, file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c line=231): entered
> rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c(231)
> _exit_cleanup(code=20, file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.5.3/rsync.c line=231: about to call exit(20)
> _exit_cleanup(code=20, file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/main.c, line=965): entered
> ..
>
> Any ideas what is going on?  It won't even copy a simple 3 file
> directory where the files are around 10 bytes each.  This works GREAT
> under Windows 2003, and Windows 2000... If you have any ideas of how to
> debug this, or where to look it would be greatly appreciated.  Please
> cc: my email address on any replies :)

Well, first off, you might want to tell us which Cygwin version you're
using on both machines (and the versions of openssh and rsync).  See

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

for instructions on how to properly report the Cygwin version and
installation information.
	Igor
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