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spikeh

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Registered: 2012-04-14

Posts: 33

[Solved] Unison sync hangs on "Reconciling changes"

Hello! I'm trying to sync a laptop with a remote server. The laptop is running Arch with Unison version 2.40.102 and the remote server is running Debian Wheezy with Unison version 2.40.65. When I run "unison sync ssh://remote/sync", it works if the folder "sync" is empty, but if it contains a file then Unison hangs:

Contacting server...
Connected [//remote//home/spikeh/sync -> //local//home/spikeh/sync]
Looking for changes
  Waiting for changes from server
Reconciling changes

local          remote...       
new file ---->            foobar  [f]

I first suspected the version difference, so I used 2.40.61 static binaries from http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/. However, the same issue persists.

Last edited by spikeh (2014-06-18 16:49:35)

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monodromy

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Registered: 2014-02-08

Posts: 65

Re: [Solved] Unison sync hangs on "Reconciling changes"

What happens if you type "f"?

spikeh

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Registered: 2012-04-14

Posts: 33

Re: [Solved] Unison sync hangs on "Reconciling changes"

Thanks for your reply. I can't believe how stupid I've been... It's all working now!

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monodromy

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Registered: 2014-02-08

Posts: 65

Re: [Solved] Unison sync hangs on "Reconciling changes"

It happens to everyone. You can also use the -batch option if you want to have unison automatically do what makes sense. For example, I run unison during bootup with -batch and -silent. If there are conflicts, unison will give an error message, so you can then manually resolve the conflicts.