[kkto csis hku hk: Bug#117608: gnome-pilot-conduits: New gnome-pilot-conduits (or gnome-pilot) causes M500 to fail hard]

[Mike Markley <mike markley org>]

This looks like a serious problem...

Please feel free to contact me for more info on the Debian packaging... I'm
also certain that the submitter wouldn't mind providing more info if needed.

----- Forwarded message from Isaac To <kkto csis hku hk> -----

From: Isaac To <kkto csis hku hk>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:05:41 +0800
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit bugs debian org>
Subject: Bug#117608: gnome-pilot-conduits: New gnome-pilot-conduits (or gnome-pilot) causes M500 to fail hard

Package: gnome-pilot-conduits
Version: 0.4-4
Severity: important

(I've written this report after confirming that downgrading cures the problem,
so the version number listed is not the failing version.)

Once I upgraded to the unstable gnome-pilot/gnome-pilot-conduits 0.1.62-2/
0.7-1, I made a hot-sync trying to install a program into it, and... the Palm
fails with a "Fatal exception", and the exception can be cleared only by
performing a hard reset clearing all data in the Palm.  I've tried that
many times, and found that it is very repeatable: even in the starting state
after clearing the Palm completely, even when there is no memory stick
installed, when I install a new program file there, the Palm becomes unusable
(saying Fatal exception on wakeup and soft-reset).

On the other hand, the problem is not seen when I sync data into the Palm.
Except that, when I try to sync the address book or datebook, the records
data are not quite correct.  E.g., all people records will get empty fields,
and all date-book entry will become un-timed.

Getting back to the versions in testing (0.1.54 and 0.4) clears the problem.
"Important", as it causes major data loss (at least, in my case).

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux enark 2.4.10 #1 ¶g¤G 10¤ë 2 16:12:26 HKT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages gnome-pilot-conduits depends on:
ii  gdk-imlib1                  1.9.11-3     Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library fo
ii  gnome-pilot                 0.1.54-2     A GNOME applet for management of y
ii  libart2                     1.4.1.2-5    The Gnome canvas widget
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.2-2      The Audiofile Library
ii  libc6                       2.2.4-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcapplet0                 1:1.4.0.1-13 Library for Gnome Control Center a
ii  libdb2                      2:2.7.7.0-1  The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii  libesd0                     0.2.22-6     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libglib1.2                  1.2.10-1.2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-pilot0             0.1.54-2     Support librares for gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome32                  1.4.1.2-5    The Gnome libraries
ii  libgnomesupport0            1.4.1.2-5    The Gnome libraries (Support libra
ii  libgnomeui32                1.4.1.2-5    The Gnome libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnorba27                 1.4.1.2-5    Gnome CORBA services
ii  libgtk1.2                   1.2.10-2.1   The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  liborbit0                   0.5.10-2     Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpisock3                  0.9.5-pre5-3 Libraries for communicating with a
ii  libxml1                     1:1.8.16-1   GNOME XML library
ii  xlib6g                      4.1.0-9      pseudopackage providing X librarie
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.3-16   compression library - runtime


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