Re: [Evolution] Pilot Settings Disappeared - solved (?)

[RN <rnoor mail com>]

The '--force-shutdown' was probably not supported in  v1.2.x. I believe
you can use the 'killev' command instead.



On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:39, Eric N. Valor wrote:
> Apparently there were multiple copies of gpilotd running, creating
> confusion.  How this occurred I have no idea.  I killed off all the
> running instances of gpilotd, killed Evolution, and then restarted.  All
> seems happy now.
>
> BTW:  When I close Evolution there's still an "alarm-notify" process
> left lying around.  Doing "evolution --force-shutdown" results in an
> error "unknown option".  
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:48, Eric N. Valor wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > I'm using Evolution 1.2.4 on Debian with a 2.4.20 kernel. I had properly
> > set up my Palm to sync via serial, and all was working great.  In the
> > past few days now I can't sync the Palm - Hotsync doesn't find
> > Evolution, and when I try to bring up the Pilot Conduit Settings, all I
> > get is a grey screen in the Control Center Pilot Link.
> >
> > Is there any logging or anything I can look at to see what the error
> > might be?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > =======
> >
> > follow-on:
> >
> > I tried running gpilotd (as suggested in another similar thread). 
> > Here's my output:
> >
> > gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 0.1.70 starting...
> > gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.11.5
> > gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
> >
> > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> > gpilotd-Message: Activating CORBA server
> > gpilotd-Message: Watching Cradle (/dev/pilot)
> > gpilotd-Message: Woke on Cradle
> > gpilotd-Message: setting PILOTRATE=115200
> > gpilotd-Message: Exiting (caught SIGINT)...
> >
> > (at this point the sync has failed and I hit Ctrl-C to exit).
> >
> > /dev/pilot is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0 (to which my PalmV cradle is
> > attached).