Re: Problems with CVS gnome-pilot

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 11 Apr 2001 10:43:32 -0400, James Moody wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I can't figure this out. I have had previous versions of gnome-pilot working
> great.
> 
> 1) I downloaded the latest pilot-link and installed it.
> 2) Downloaded the CVS gnome-pilot as of yesterday and (with the addition
> of -lcapplet and -lpanel_applet on one file) compiled and installed it.
> 
> Control centre, walked through the setup druid, retrieved the sync id. Ok.
> Clicked on the conduits. Enabled one of them (backup conduit). It doesn't
> matter which one I enable, I tried a few selectively and they all fail as
> follows:
> 
> Press sync. gpilotd is happy:
> gpilotd-WARNING **: pi_accept_to: timeout was 2 secs
> gpilotd-Message: Woke on Cradle
> gpilotd-Message: setting PILOTRATE=57600
> gpilotd-Message: Cradle Cradle has 0 events
> gpilotd-Message: Instantiating 1 conduits...
> 
> Instantiate the conduit. I get a segfault. I did some gdb and strace and
> some debug statements, and this is what's going on:
> 
> 
> backup_conduit.c, function load_configuration:
> The ConduitCfg struct is getting filled in here with gnome_config settings.
> In particular, gnome_config_get_string("backup_dir") is NULL, so the
> ensuing opendir call fails.
> 
> Why is it null? Thinking there was just a problem upgrading from the previous
> version, I totally removed my whole .gnome directory and started fresh, with
> exactly the same results.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this or know why it's happening?

Good catch.  Its because no default settings are written out.  I should
probably have the settings dialog popup when the conduit is enable or
something similar.

-JP
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