[SOLVED] Unison hangs on Contacting server

[masarin]

First I like to express my big gratitude to the developers of this outstanding distribution.
Thank you!!

I use Unison to sync between my desktop and laptop.
A few days ago it stopped working properly. Now wen it's trying to connect to the server, it just sits there doing just that.

I can successfully ssh between the machines.

[Texstar]

First I like to express my big gratitude to the developers of this outstanding distribution.
Thank you!!

I use Unison to sync between my desktop and laptop.
A few days ago it stopped working properly. Now wen it's trying to connect to the server, it just sits there doing just that.

I can successfully ssh between the machines.

Probably the unison software doesn't work with the updated ssh packages anymore.

[masarin]

Anyone have a suggestion for a nother program I could use to sync files between computers?

[AS]

check if this can help:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/347029

The problem described in the above link look related to password authentication, may be you can override the problem using "keys" instead of password.
Personally I use rsync + ssh w/key authentication.

AS

[masarin]

Ok, thank you.

I have now Unison working after setting up ssh key authentication on my machines.

I took help from this tutorial:
http://linuxphilia.blogspot.com/2011/01/setting-up-public-key-authentication.html

But had this error when copying the key to the server:
"error "ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found"

Found the solution here:
http://4j.blogspot.com/2009/07/ssh-copy-id-error-no-identities-found.html

[Texstar]

I sent up an updated unison package to the repos with the arch linux hangfix patch taken from a post here about gentoo but don't know if it works or not.