btsync-gui: GUI freezes, and stops syncin

[joaofl]

Hi,

First, thanks for the great tool! But recently I started having a problem which is actually happening on my two machines. It manifests a bit differently on each of them, but seems to be somehow related to each other.

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 (Xubuntu), Btsync 1.3.106 + UI 0.8.3 on both machines, which are connected to a third ARM based server of mine (which runs the server distribution and does not present any problem).

When I turn on machine A, btsync-gui starts, and start syncing, and after ~20s it freezes, even the icon stops spinning. Then, I have to do sudo pkill -KILL btsync-core.... After that, the UI seems to be reloaded, and it starts working normally for the first couple of hours. What happens then is that it continuous to run normally, but stops syncing again. Even with the UI operational, it simply does not respect the scan interval of the settings, neither gets any call from the OS saying that the files were changed. To re-sync, I have to proceed with killing again the btsync-core, and reload the Btsync by its shortcut.

Machine B does not freezes in the startup, but presents the same behavior overall, except the first.

I have tried to purge bt-sync and reinstall it, but the behavior is preserved. I dont know exactly what to try.

Sorry for the long text and for any possible ignorance of mine. And thanks for the attentions.

Best,

João

[tuxpoldo]

I suppose that you have lots of shared directories and that the system has some timing issues. Can you please try to run the GUI from the command line with

btsync-gui --log DEBUG

until the freeze happens? I would like to know the adjusted timings. You see them in lines like:

DEBUG:root:Last cycle duration was 32 msec - Adaptive timeout changed to 1000 msec to avoid API flooding
DEBUG:root:Last cycle duration was 34 msec