On 18/12/10 08:47, Stuart Bailey wrote:
I have 2 servers that synchronise data each night using unison. They have been working fine for about 3 months.
Just recently we re-organised the data, which caused a large sync event, but was successful.
Since then, unison returns a value of 139, rather than 0 (success). The sync seems to work OK, but I can't find what this 139 error code means. Any ideas?
When command from a shell script gets a signal the returned value has 128 added to it...so your real return signal is 11 SIGSEGV which means your unison process is segfaulting.
The chances are that your sync in this case is only ever partially complete.
I would run it without -terse and with -debug all from the shell and see if you can find where it is going wrong. It might be hitting something in one file it doesn't like and I have seen this when hitting a funny character in a filename before.