Re: [BackupPC-users] Installation problems: BackupPC_serverMesg hangs

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Christoph,

> So it seems that the problem is the same with the tcp connection as with the
> unix socket.
> 
> Do you have any further idea what the problem could be?
> 
> Does anybody know why the read() system call might hang?

Most likely the BackupPC server doesn't see the first message
from BackupPC_serverMesg.

I suspect the problem is that perl has a buggy select() or some
other related function or buffering problem on your platform.
Perhaps you could google for perl bugs on your platform?

Craig