Re: evolution address book conduit issues

[lsiden <lsiden-public comcast net>]

Correction: make that "Or better yet, forget about both and just
> back my Visor up every night w/ pilot-xfer (which does work)."

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:44, lsiden wrote:
> I agree.  I am also becoming very frustrated with Evolution.  It
> suddenly breaks when I update libraries for other applications.  It
> seems to be incredibly fragile.  Gentoo (my distro) was still
> distributing 2.0.9 of both gnome-pilot and g-p-conduits.  At first, I
> couldn't get anything to work.  Now, I updated glib to 2.2.2, g-p and
> g-p-conduits to 2.0.10, disabled EAddress, and synced on my serial
> cradle.  For several more attempts it didn't work, but then when I tried
> it on my serial cradle, it worked.  Then I went back to the USB cradle,
> tried again, and it crashed again when synching addresses.  
> 
> The problem with this is I never know when it will work and when it
> won't and it doesn't generate a log file that might help me.  If there
> is no prospect of resolving this soon I may have no choice but to go
> back to jpilot.  I don't like that GUI much, but hey, at least it worked
> for me last time I tried it!  Or better yet, forget about both and just
> back my Visor up every night w/ pilot-link (which does work).
> 
> -Larry Siden
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:11, Fernando Paredes wrote:
> > I too am having the same problem. And I've seen it
> > before. If I delete the offending address and try
> > again it usually finishes quite cleanly...
> > 
> > But this time is different..I've already deleted about
> > 10-15 entries and the thing keeps finding one it
> > doesn't like. I can't see any pattern to the entries
> > that make it hang. It's very frustrating because the
> > conduit gives absolutely NO information on what is
> > happening.
> > 
> > I've had so many problems with Evolution that I'm
> > really starting to consider not using it anymore. It's
> > terrible! It's like a black box...too complex (too
> > many things can go wrong and you never know where the
> > error is). And things go wrong all too often. 
> > I hope I don't hurt anyone's feeling with this, but
> > that's how it is. Evolution is becoming into something
> > that prevents me from doing my normal work instead of
> > helping me.
> > 
> > If anyone can offer ANY help on how to fix this or at
> > least where to look to find out what's wrong I would
> > very much appreciate it.
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > 
> > --- Charlie Wood <gnome urchaidh com> wrote:
> > > I'm running a RedHat 9.0 (sorry, not my choice) box
> > > with Ximian
> > > Evolution and Gnome-pilot versions as below.
> > > 
> > > Configured for USB/9600  I can perform a full backup
> > > quite happily (if
> > > slowly) but if I try to use the Evolution address
> > > book
> > > conduit  to copy
> > > addresses from the Palm (Zire) the conduit appears
> > > to
> > > hang - always on
> > > the same address.
> > > 
> > > The Zire reports a dropped connection, the conduit
> > > hangs, the daemon
> > > hangs and the applet usually crashes. I have run the
> > > daemon from a shell
> > > and get no useful debug, the last message being:
> > > 
> > > eaddrconduit-Message: add_record: adding ['Doe'
> > > 'John'
> > > ''] to desktop
> > > 
> > > When I remove the first hanging address it finds
> > > another to hang on, it
> > > does not appear to be related to the content of the
> > > hanging address nor
> > > the amount of data transferred.
> > > 
> > > Can anyone offer me any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > 53 brora% rpmquery -a | grep pilot
> > > gnome-pilot-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> > > pilot-link095-compat-0.9.5-22
> > > gnome-pilot-applet-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> > > gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> > > pilot-link-devel-0.11.5-4
> > > gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> > > pilot-link-0.11.5-4
> > > evolution-pilot-1.4.4-0.ximian.6.1
> > > 
> > > 54 brora% evolution --version
> > > Gnome evolution 1.4.4
> > > 
> > > 55 brora% gpilotd-control-applet --version
> > > Gnome gpilotd-control-applet 2.0.10
> > > 
> > > 56 brora% /usr/libexec/gpilotd --version
> > > gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.10 starting...
> > > gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version
> > > 0.11.5
> > > gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA]
> > > [Network]
> > > Gnome gnome-pilot 2.0.10
> > > 
> > > 57 brora% /usr/libexec/gpilot-applet --version
> > > Gnome Pilot-Applet 0
> > > 
> > > 58 brora% pilot-file --version
> > >    .--------------------------------------------.
> > >    | (c) Copyright 1996-2001, pilot-link team   |
> > >    |    Join the pilot-unix list to contribute. |
> > >    `--------------------------------------------'
> > >    This is pilot-file from pilot-link version 0.11.5
> > >    Build date: Jan 24 2003 14:47:43
> > >  
> > >    pilot-link 0.11.5 is covered under the GPL/LGPL
> > >    See the file COPYING for more details.
> > >  
> > >    Please use -h for more detailed options.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Charlie Wood
> > > 
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