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Re: updated: unison2.40
> I've been using unison to sync files via ssh without problems.
> Unison 2.40.16-2 works fine for me, but 2.40.61-1 fails.
>
> Using 2.40.16-2 the sequence is:
>
> 0) Start mintty with a bash shell
> 1) run "unison ssh-home" to use profile "~/.unison/ssh-home.prf"
> 2) unison connects to the ssh server, and prompts for a password. After
> typing the password, the replicas are synchronised as expected, with
> interactive prompting for which replica to update.
>
> With 2.40.61-1 the sequence is:
> 1) run "unison ssh-home" to use profile "~/.unison/ssh-home.prf"
> 2) unison connects to the ssh server, and prints the password prompt. It
> immediately dies with a fatal error:
>
> ~> unison ssh-home
> Contacting server...
> 2 [main] unison 2132 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x600, errno 11
> Fatal error: Error in starting shell connection:
> Resource temporarily unavailable [fork()]
Thanks for reporting that. I've uploaded a new test release. Would you
mind trying it out?
wget \
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/unison/unison2.40/unison2.40-2.40.61-2.tar.bz2
tar -C/ -xf unison2.40-2.40.61-2.tar.bz2
then run unison-2.40 as before, and let me know if that works.
Andrew.
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