MerceanCoconut

Hi, I'm running Sync 1.0.134 on Debian Linux packaged by tuxpoldo. Any time a download reaches 2.5 MB btsync crashes. Restarting will continue the download until the next 2.5 MB is reached and it crashes again. Uploading works fine, and the crashing is reproduceable when syncing locally or remotely. If all files are smaller than 2.5 MB there is no problem, only for larger files does Sync crash. While watching sync.log I noticed that when Sync starts I see the following two lines: [20130430 09:10:04] total physical memory -1 max disk cache 2097152 [20130430 09:10:04] Using IP address 192.168.21.2 For some reason, after these two lines are written sync.log is immediately overwritten again, so they don't appear in the log after the crash occurs. On another Debian machine the physical memory is a number that makes more sense. I suspect that Syncs inability to determine the memory available is the cause of the problem...but who knows. I have started a request, but haven't received much feedback: https://syncapp.zendesk.com/requests/662 Hopefully someone has some suggestions. Thanks.

No problems with the latest init.d script. Thanks for the update. I am running on Debian not Ubuntu so that probably accounts for the difference.

I replaced all instances of 'UID' with 'uid' in /etc/init.d/btsync and it seems to be starting fine. I suspect that UID is set as a readonly variable by bash somewhere. It might be a good idea to switch to lowercase variables in the init script.

I received the following error when installing squeeze package: Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package btsync. (Reading database ... 126642 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking btsync (from .../btsync_1.0.132-1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Setting up btsync (1.0.132-1) ... Starting P2P file synchronisation daemon(s).../etc/init.d/btsync: line 57: UID: readonly variable invoke-rc.d: initscript btsync, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing btsync (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: btsync E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up btsync (1.0.132-1) ... Starting P2P file synchronisation daemon(s).../etc/init.d/btsync: line 57: UID: readonly variable invoke-rc.d: initscript btsync, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing btsync (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: btsync

I have been spending some time the last few days getting btsync to work with my setup and the final issue that I have is that when btsync creates new directories it doesn't set the setgid bit even though the parent directory has this set. This may or may not be related to btsync. I am using version 1.0.132 on debian linux.