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Re: Problem with unison

Bruno — Thu Nov 22, 2012 8:15 pm

Author: Bruno

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 8:15 pm

You may have a permissions problem. Check that you are allowed to read from and write to the relevant files and directories on both machines.

Probably a red herring, but do you need the compression switch on SSH? This setting may conflict with settings in your ssh_config or sshd_config files.

Re: Problem with unison

Rhakios — Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:02 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:02 pm

Given the order you set things up and your use of force = newer and times = true, try it again without those two options in your perf.

Re: Problem with unison

paulm — Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:08 pm

Author: paulm

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:08 pm

cmcevoy wrote:

Different versions of unison on the two machines? I think there is a switch to stop it being so picky, but I imagine the advice to use the same version at both ends is there for a reason!

Same version, though different build numbers (similar to the differences between the Linux and Mac version mentioned in the article).

Had to stop for the moment - I upgraded Salix to the latest RC and lost unison - I'll have to try building it myself sometime in the next few days, unless the it appears in the updated repo....

I wondered if it might be the Salix build had a problem, but haven't so far been able to test.

Paul.

Problem with unison

cmcevoy — Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:04 am

Author: cmcevoy

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:04 am

Different versions of unison on the two machines? I think there is a switch to stop it being so picky, but I imagine the advice to use the same version at both ends is there for a reason!

Problem with unison

paulm — Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:42 am

Author: paulm

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:42 am

I read the article in LXF 165 on using unison, thought that it might get round a problem I've been having keeping files in sync between three different machines.

I installed a copy of unison on my laptop (Arch) and a copy on my desktop (Salix). I then created a test directory in ~/ on the laptop, then created an empty directory of the same name on the desktop machine. Created a test profile which has the following:

Code:

label = this is a test profile
root = /home/fang/test
root = ssh://fang@deneb/test
sshargs = -C
force = newer
times = true

I then ran unison from the command line with this:

Code:

unison -ui text test

Trouble is, every time I've tried this, I get the following error:

Code:

Waiting for changes from server\ chan5
Reconciling changes
Dumping archives to ~/unison.dump on both hosts
Finished dumping archives
Fatal error: Internal error: New archives are not identical.
Retaining original archives. Please run Unison again to bring them up to date.

I don't understand the 'server\ chan5' reference and so far can't get any further than that.

Anyone who has experience with unison got any idea what I've done wrong?

Paul.