On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/31/05, Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither
> > > of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran
> > > the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worked fine as far as
> > > I could tell, but I never used NFS much and I only jsut set up NFS
> > > today to try out Unison so maybe it's one of those systems causing the
> > > problem?
> >
> > Is the NFS filesystem mounted read-only?
> > --
>
> No Glenn, it's mounted read/write and I tested that I Could write it
> from the machine running Unison.
>
> I tried running Unison on a directory containing a single CD. It hung
> up on that also. After the hang up the machine is really unhappy
> rebooting. It gives me messages about being unable to unmoust the NFS
> filesystems.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> thanks,
> Mark

Ok just a thought :). Last time I had a dodgy program Zac Medico suggested I 
run strace on it, so in your case from a command prompt...
	# strace unison dir1 dir2

Does using a different terminal program make any difference? maybee using 
screen?. Not an expert here you understand just trying to fit peices in the 
puzzle.
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