I have three PCs lynx, grizzly and thinkpad in my homenet. I start unison without parameters at lynx, select Txt_grizzly in the next window and want to synchronize with grizzly. I see the unison->Contacting server... window but nothing happens. I can only press the beenden(finish) button. On the other hand there is no problem to ssh or rsync from lynx to grizzly and I have no problem to unison from thinkpad to grizzly. This happens not every time but rather often in the last two weeks. If I do 'unison Txt_grizzly.prf' I will be ask for password on grizzly and then I get the unison synchronisation window and everthing seems to work. Any ideas? Reproducible: Always Actual Results: rose@lynx:/home/rose(7)$ rsync perlMagick.pdf grizzly: Password: rose@lynx:/home/rose(10)$ ping -c2 grizzly PING grizzly.homenet (192.168.1.53) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from grizzly.homenet (192.168.1.53): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=2.62 ms 64 bytes from grizzly.homenet (192.168.1.53): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.219 ms --- grizzly.homenet ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.219/1.420/2.622/1.202 ms rose@lynx:/home/rose(13)$ ssh grizzly Password: Last login: Sun Aug 29 16:46:15 CEST 2010 from thinkpad.homenet on ssh ... rose@grizzly:/home/rose(1)$ rose@lynx:/home/rose(19)$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 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Now also 'unison Txt_grizzly.prf' does not work anymore. Even a reboot does not help.
I suppose that the descibed issue has something to to with a not running ssh-agent. The problems occured, if I was logged in lynx via ssh, and there was no graphic login for me. If I later logged in via gdm and gnome the issue disappeared.
The currrent state with unison is, that unison get only contact, if I start unison directly in at the gnome desktop (i.e. not via ssh). Has anybody an idea?
I sit at "condor" and have two ssh windows to "thinkpad". In the first ssh window I do the following: rose@thinkpad:/home/rose(3)$ cat .unison/Txt_grizzly.prf root = /home/rose/Txt root = ssh://grizzly//home/rose/Txt rose@thinkpad:/home/rose(4)$ unison -debug all Txt_grizzly.prf [startup] Preferences: ui = graphic host = server = false prefsdocs = false doc = version = false silent = false dumbtty = false testserver = false rest = Txt_grizzly.prf showprev = false selftest = false confirmmerge = false retry = 0 repeat = contactquietly = false key = label = expert = false reusewindows = false height = 20 auto = false maxthreads = 20 prefer = force = sortnewfirst = false sortbysize = false keeptempfilesaftermerge = false diff = diff -u CURRENT2 CURRENT1 fastcheck = default ignorelocks = false dumparchives = false showarchive = false rootsName = backupdir = maxbackups = 2 backups = false backupsuffix = backupprefix = .bak.$VERSION. backuploc = central copyquoterem = default copythreshold = -1 copyprogrest = rsync --partial --inplace --compress copyprog = rsync --inplace --compress rsync = true allHostsAreRunningWindows = false someHostIsRunningWindows = false confirmbigdel = true batch = false root = ssh://grizzly//home/rose/Txt root = /home/rose/Txt killserver = false addversionno = false servercmd = sshargs = rshargs = rshcmd = rsh sshcmd = ssh xferbycopying = true sshversion = pretendwin = false times = false group = false owner = false numericids = false dontchmod = false perms = 1023 rsrc-aux = false rsrc = default someHostIsInsensitive = false ignorecase = default timers = false terse = false logfile = /home/rose/unison.log log = true debugtimes = false debug = all addprefsto = [remote] Shell connection: ssh (ssh, grizzly, -e, none, unison, -server) A new window (Unison (auf thinkpad) Contacting server... [Beenden])) is opened. But I can wait several (e.g. 20) minutes and there is no contact. If I do in the second ssh window of "thinkpad" the following: rose@thinkpad:/home/rose(1)$ ssh grizzly -e none unison -server Password: Unison 2.32 I will enter my passwort and get a connection. Of course I can only get a normal ssh login from "thinkpad' to "grizzly": rose@thinkpad:/home/rose(2)$ ssh grizzly Password: Last login: Tue Sep 14 19:07:31 CEST 2010 from thinkpad.homenet on ssh ############################################################## 99servers.sh: CUR_RUNLEVEL=|3| PREV_RUNLEVEL=|N| ############################################################## ==== Interface eth0 is OK! ===== --- i_f=eth i_f_state=OK, before 'route | grep eth' .bash_profile: after .bashrc PS1=|\[\033[01;31m\]rose@grizzly:\[\033[01;34m\]/home/rose(\#)$ \[\033[00m\]| LC_ALL=|| rose@grizzly:/home/rose(1)$ Why unison does not get a connection?
Sorry for the type, I wanted say "I can also get a normal ssh login" and not "get only".
Sometimes unison still works if it is started in a ssh window. I open a xterm window with ssh to "tiger". I looking for running keyrings: rose@tiger:/home/rose(7)$ psgrep key USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND rose 4424 0.0 0.0 13840 0 ? Sl Aug18 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login rose 21969 0.0 0.0 22284 8 ? Sl Jun14 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize rose 23140 0.0 0.0 22280 284 ? Sl Jun02 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize rose 26692 0.0 0.0 13840 500 ? Sl 14:42 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login rose 30949 0.0 0.0 22280 276 ? Sl May28 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize I try to ssh to orca: rose@tiger:/home/rose(8)$ ssh orca Password: Last login: Tue Sep 14 19:28:10 CEST 2010 from tiger.bioinf.cs.uni-potsdam.de on ssh ############################################################## 99servers.sh: CUR_RUNLEVEL=|3| PREV_RUNLEVEL=|N| ############################################################## ==== Interface eth0 is OK! ===== --- i_f=eth i_f_state=OK, before 'route | grep eth' * keychain 2.7.1 ~ http://www.funtoo.org * Found existing ssh-agent: 3820 * Found existing gpg-agent: 3845 * Warning: can't find *dsa; skipping .bash_profile: after .bashrc PS1=|\[\033[01;31m\]rose@orca:\[\033[01;34m\]/home/rose(\#)$ \[\033[00m\]| LC_ALL=|| It works, but I have to enter a password. I try to open a unison connection to orca: Connection to orca closed. rose@tiger:/home/rose(9)$ unison I enter the profile for orca, unison does not(!!!) ask me for a password and hangs endless trying 'Contacting server...'. I try to open a unison connection to orca with the profile name on the command line: I get first the "Contacting server..." window, some milliseconds later a "Connecting to 'ssh://orca/Txt'..." window is opened, where I can enter my password for orca. And then unison looks for changes and I can synchronize the two directories. On other boxes I see an other behaviour (e.g. lynx). I have a ssh window to lynx: rose@lynx:/home/rose(13)$ ps -ef | grep key | grep -v grep rose 22981 1 0 16:18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login (I don't know why this gnome-keyring-daemon is running for rose, I am only logged in via ssh, no gnome-session is running: rose@lynx:/home/rose(15)$ ps -ef | grep gnome | grep -v grep rose 22981 1 0 16:18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login ) There is no problem to log into grizzly, but I am ask for password: rose@lynx:/home/rose(16)$ ssh grizzly Password: Last login: Wed Sep 15 16:21:26 CEST 2010 from lynx.homenet on pts/7 ############################################################## 99servers.sh: CUR_RUNLEVEL=|3| PREV_RUNLEVEL=|N| ############################################################## ==== Interface eth0 is OK! ===== --- i_f=eth i_f_state=OK, before 'route | grep eth' .bash_profile: after .bashrc PS1=|\[\033[01;31m\]rose@grizzly:\[\033[01;34m\]/home/rose(\#)$ \[\033[00m\]| LC_ALL=|| If I am running unison, it does not ask for a password: rose@lynx:/home/rose(17)$ unison Txt_grizzly It is hanging with the "Contacting server..." window. If I sitting at the console of lynx and have a gnome-session, I have no problem to connect with unison to grizzly. Can anybody help me?
I found a workaround. If I start manually ssh-agent and add my ssh-key, then unison works.
