Re: Problems with CVS gnome-pilot

[James Moody <jemoody home com>]

Ah, but I can't open the settings dialog either, for exactly the same
reason. :-) Any other good way to get default settings written out??

james

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:17:44PM -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> 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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