Re: [Evolution] sync stopped working

[Gerhard Schuck <geschu ma5 seikyou ne jp>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:47:58 +0900
Gerhard Schuck <geschu ma5 seikyou ne jp> wrote:

> On 20 Nov 2001 22:02:38 -0500
> JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 20:36, Gerhard Schuck wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > last Friday sync worked fine with the new RC2 release. Today it doesn't work at all. My Palm says that 
> > > it can't connect to the computer. What I found out: Even on Friday (a far as I remember) sync worked 
> > > only, if I choose "Syncronize" in the Pilot-Link settings of the control center. It didn't work with 
> > > "Use conduit settings", which I find a little bit weird. Today, after sync had failed, I checked 
> > > Pilot-Link settings and found out that it had changed to "use conduit settings" automatically. But even 
> > > after changing back to "Syncronize" it didn't work. Somewhere I read that one has to restart the daemon 
> > > by right clicking on the Pilot-Link icon. This doesn't work here. Right clicking shows no reaction. So 
> > > I rebooted. Again the settings had automatically changed from "Syncronize" to "Use conduit settings" 
> > > and sync didn't work.
> > >
> > > So what can I do?
> >
> > I'm unclear here, are you running the pilot-applet in the panel?
>
> No, what I tried to explain was the configuration in "controll center/Advanced/Pilot Link". Also "controll 
> center/Advanced/Pilot Coduits" is configured. What I actually do is just push the HotSync button while 
> evolution is open. That' how it should work and it worked well yesterday. My point is, that it worked only 
> with the Pilot Link settings configured as "Syncronize" (and not as "Use conduit settings"), and that this 
> configuration now isn't saved. It always changes back to "Use conduit settings".
>
> Sorry if I'm unclear. My English is too bad and moreover I don't really understand what's going on between 
> "gnome-pilot", "pilot-link", "conduits" and "evolution". By the way pilot-xfer on the command line works, 
> for example for backup.

As I now found out, it's not a problem of synchronization but a problem of the Pilot Link configuration 
program in control center/Advanced. When I open "control center/Advanced/Pilot Link", change the 
configuration of MyPilot from "Use conduit settings" to "Syncronize", click OK but don't close the "Settings" 
window, sync works fine. As soon as I close the window the synchronization is blocked. Strange isn't it? 
Somehow the Pilot Link settings aren't saved when I close the Settings window, and the settings jump back to 
a standard configuration which doesn't work. At least that's my conclusion as a user.

So for the moment I know what I have to do to get my Palm synchronized. But still the question is open what's 
going wrong.

Gerhard Schuck
geschu ma5 seikyou ne jp