Re: gpilotd problem

[Dave Cooper <dco prismtechnologies com>]

I think you should be using pilot-link 0.11.3 now...  But I dont know
that that will fix your problem...

Dave



On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 06:51, Jack Coates wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem with gpilotd running away with all the memory.
> Mandrake 8.2, Sony Clie 610C syncing over USB to Ximian Evolution. I've
> compiled pilot-link 0.11.1 from source and installed over the Mandrake
> RPM (prefix=/usr) in order to minimize dependency hell. 
> 
> I then recompiled gnome-pilot-0.1.65-4mdk from src.rpm so that it would
> use pilot-link 0.11.1, which it appears to do from the backtrace.
> 
> This setup works reasonably well as long as I don't use
> gpilot-install-file -- if I use that utility, the next regular HotSync
> will cause a runaway gpilotd to consume all memory and eventually crash
> the system (on a side note, wasn't the 2.4 kernel supposed to kill
> runaway processes for you? Not happening here).
> 
> I'm not a developer, but I found instructions on how to take a backtrace
> manually and have done so in the attached file.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Jack Coates
> Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...