Bug: Connection hangs forever

[tomelliot]

After logging Connecting..., the process sometimes never emits another log line - no success, no error, no retry. It stays alive but does nothing indefinitely.

2026-04-24T03:30:42.799451+02:00 machine systemd[1422]: Started obsidian-sync.service - Obsidian Headless Sync.
2026-04-24T03:30:44.233875+02:00 machine ob[1540]: Starting sync:
2026-04-24T03:30:44.255935+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Vault: <redacted> (<redacted>)
2026-04-24T03:30:44.256315+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Location: /home/<redacted>
2026-04-24T03:30:44.256557+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Sync mode: bidirectional
2026-04-24T03:30:44.256791+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Conflict strategy: merge
2026-04-24T03:30:44.257458+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Device name: machine
2026-04-24T03:30:44.265118+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Config directory: .obsidian
2026-04-24T03:30:44.265474+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   File types: image, audio, video, pdf, unsupported
2026-04-24T03:30:44.265755+02:00 machine ob[1540]:   Configs: none (config syncing disabled)
2026-04-24T03:30:46.001140+02:00 machine ob[1540]: Connecting...
2026-04-24T16:17:51.938514+02:00 machine systemd[1422]: Stopping obsidian-sync.service - Obsidian Headless Sync...

[tomelliot]

@lishid if you make the codebase public, I'm happy to look into some of these

[milesmmoran]

I am having the same issue on all machines.

[lishid]

Hey @Belphemur, I've sent you an email about your comment. Let's continue over email 🙏 .

[lishid]

Does it happen in a regular command line instead of as a service?

[Samcfuchs]

I'm also seeing this behavior when running as a systemd service after running successfully for a while. This time it happened after 22 hours. The host was online while it was hanging. Next time I see it I'll try to gather some diagnostics.

❯ systemctl status obsidian-sync.service
● obsidian-sync.service - Obsidian vault sync (continuous)
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/obsidian-sync.service; enabled; preset>
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-05-11 10:48:43 PDT; 22h ago
   Main PID: 6336 (node)
      Tasks: 11 (limit: 47904)
     Memory: 38.8M (peak: 45.5M)
        CPU: 21.572s
     CGroup: /system.slice/obsidian-sync.service
             └─6336 node /home/sam/.nvm/versions/node/v22.22.1/bin/ob sync --co>

May 12 01:40:48 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:41:18 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:41:48 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:42:18 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:42:48 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:43:18 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:43:48 olivia ob[6336]: Fully synced
May 12 01:43:48 olivia ob[6336]: Disconnected from server
May 12 01:43:48 olivia ob[6336]: Waiting to connect to server
May 12 01:44:18 olivia ob[6336]: Connecting...