Waiting for sync to start bug?

I have a new iPod touch 32GB running iOS 6.1 and iTunes 11.0.1 running on my Dell Windows Vista Home Basic computer.
When I tried syncing my iPod today, iTunes started with a "Waiting for sync to start" message under the progress bar.
After about 2 minutes of the same message and no progress, iTunes came up with a error message stating:
"The iPod "My iPod" could not be synced because the sync session failed to start."
I have tried both syncing it over Wi-Fi and by cable.
Any ideas?

Fixed problem.
Frustrated, I turned my iPod off while connected to my computer via USB. After about a minute, I turned it back on for iTunes to detect it and start syncing. Surprisingly, it worked! iTunes begun to back up and sync all the new podcasts I wanted to put on.

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10g等待事件Streams AQ: qmn coordinator waiting for slave to start

Top 5 Timed Events
Event Waits Time(s) Avg Wait(ms) % Total Call Time Wait Class
CPU time 143 82.5
db file sequential read 2,747 24 9 14.1 User I/O
Streams AQ: qmn coordinator
waiting for slave to start 4 21 5,259 12.2 Other
log file sync 5,427 7 1 4.1 Commit
log file parallel write 6,316 6 1 3.6 System I/O
数据库是10.2.0.4.0 64bi,2节点RAC
最近数据库其中一个节点里一直出现“Streams AQ: qmn coordinator waiting for slave to start”等待事件，一直没有查找到相关资料，
而且这个等待事件平均等待将近5s，
想问下这个等待事件是怎么产生的，要怎么处理？谢谢了！
Edited by: 956716 on 2012-9-3 下午7:21
Edited by: 956716 on 2012-9-3 下午7:22

是否有配置Streams、Advanced Queue特性？
请把ALERT.LOG 发给我
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