rsync hanging on Cygwin

[Jim Salter]

Slight clarification:

When I said "latest version" of rsync, I did NOT mean the latest binary 
packaged with cygwin, I meant the latest source version, which you can 
compile yourself under cygwin (if you've installed gcc, ming, and make) 
or you can use the pre-compiled binaries now available at cwrsync's site.

> I'm trying to use rsync under Cygwin on 2 machines running Windows 2000
> Server
> There's a 2MB link between them and I'm using SSH setup for a passwordless
> connection
>  
> rsync hangs part way through transfers and when run again hangs at the same
> place in the same files with no explanation no matter what verbosity level I
> set it to.  Each time it hangs it leaves an rsync process running on the
> "source" machine
>  
> I added the timeout option to the command which gives the following info:
> (don't know if this will help track down this issue)
>  
> io timeout after 60 seconds - exiting:00
> rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.0/io.c(109)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (72412 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.0/io.c(189)
> 
> If I run it again the "bytes read so far" values is identical
> If I delete the particular file that it hangs at (from the destination) then
> the same thing happens again
> using or not using the -W option makes no difference
> using or not using compression makes no difference
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> Now this bit is very odd:
> If I change directory on the destination machine into the directory where
> the problem file is
> and change the rsync command to transfer all the files in that directory
> (adding the directory/* to the source parameter)
> then the file is transferred just fine!
>  
> go figure!
>  
> I then rerun rsync and it will carry on past this file (since it is now up
> to date on the destination) until it hits some other "problem" file and
> hangs again.
>  
>  
> any ideas most appreciated!
> There's a note on the website home page that using daemon mode sometimes
> works around this
>  
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>  
> The man page hints that I can run rsync in daemon mode on the "source"
> machine by specifying the right parameters on the client command line
> If I'm using SSH do I still need to open up the rsync server port on the
> "server" machine, or does the traffic come over the ssh connection?
> If so what is the format of the client command line - try as I may I can't
> get it to work - it just exits immediately as soon as I add the --daemon
> parameter
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> Info about my rsync/ssh/Cygwin setup
>  
> client version:
>  
> $ rsync --version
> rsync  version 2.6.0  protocol version 27
> Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
> <http://rsync.samba.org/>
> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, 
>               no IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
> 
>  
> On source:
>  
> $ ssh -V
> OpenSSH_3.8p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
> 
> $  cygcheck -s
> 1100k 2004/03/19 E:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.5.9
>         DLL epoch: 19
>         DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>         DLL old termios: 5
>         DLL malloc env: 28
>         API major: 0
>         API minor: 112
>         Shared data: 4
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Mount registry: 2
>         Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         Program options name: Program Options
>         Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         Cygdrive default prefix: 
>         Build date: Thu Mar 18 23:05:18 EST 2004
>         Shared id: cygwin1S4
>  
> openssh              3.8p1-1            
> openssl              0.9.7d-1           
> rsync                2.6.0-1            
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