Re: HotSync shows two settings dialogs, doesn't sync

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:50 -0500, Ben Liblit wrote:
> Matt Davey wrote:
> > 1. Can you use 'pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -l' to list the files
> >    on your device?  This will verify that the kernel/usb/pilot-link
> >    part of the system is functioning properly.
> 
[...]
> 
> > 2. Try disabling HAL and restart gpilotd:
> 
> If I leave gpilotd-applet in my panel, it tries to restart gpilotd 
> automatically.  So I stopped HAL, killed gpilotd, observed that a new 
> gpilotd process had already been started, then restarted HAL.  I still 
> got the two settings dialogs and no sync as originally reported.
> 
> Next I tried removing gpilotd-applet.  I then stopped HAL (as root), 
> killed gpilotd (as me), restarted gpilotd (as me), and restarted HAL (as 
> root).  I then started to work through the gnome-pilot initial setup 
> druid.  When I reached the "Initial Sync" step I pressed HotSync.  I 
> still got two settings dialogs as before.  However, this time the 
> settings druid successfully read my user name and ID and moved on to the 
> next step after "Initial Sync".
> 
> I now pressed HotSync a second time and finally got a sync.  Yay!  Each 
> time I press HotSync now, a sync is performed.  Yay again!  However, I 
> *also* still get the two settings dialogs appearing each time.  Boo!
> 
> If I put gpilot-applet back in the panel, I can see a progress dialog 
> during sync.  But this has no affect on the two settings dialogs, which 
> still appear each time I press HotSync.
> 
> For the sake of completeness I tried killing and restarting gpilotd 
> again, this time with HAL already running.  Situation remains as before: 
> sync happens, but two extra settings dialogs appear as well.
> 
> I guess this is some kind of progress.  gnome-pilot now knows about my 
> device and I can perform syncs.  But the two superfluous settings 
> dialogs on each HotSync are still somewhat bothersome.

What a strange set of symptoms.  Can you check whether there are any
extra gnome-pilot processes running: "ps auxww | grep pilot" ?  Other
than that, I'd suspect extra queued requests hanging around, but given
that you deleted your gnome-pilot.d directory and the symptoms
persisted, that doesn't sound credible.

Glad you have some syncing going, at least.

Matt

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