[darcs-devel] Re: ssh hangs

[Georg Neis]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:01:16 -0800, David Roundy wrote:
> I've found that the ssh control master stuff causes ssh to hang even on
> linux.  I'm leaning towards the idea of making it default to off.  That
> way we won't have to worry about ssh unexpectedly hanging darcs for
> people, and if they want to use it, they can always enable it using
> ~/.darcs/defaults. It seems like all too often the solution to problems
> are to disable control master, and very seldom does it seem to be a
> solution.
> 
> Just to be clear, the first time I connect with darcs via ssh to a
> particular server, darcs hangs and won't respond to any ordinary kill
> (or ctrl-C).  It can still be killed with kill -9.  The second time I
> try darcs, it executes just fine, presumably because the control-master
> process is still sitting around.

I can confirm this and I can also say that it does *not* happen with darcs
1.0.9rc1.  Maybe someone else is more lucky in tracking down the patches
that caused this problem.  In all my attempts, after many unpulls and
pulls I ended up with an unusable repository (like conflicts coming out 
of the blue) and hence finally gave up.

Best regards,
Georg