m515 sync problems under RH9

[Andrew Jaffe <a jaffe imperial ac uk>]

Hi-

I regularly use gnome-pilot to sync my Palm 515 to my RH9 linux box
(albeit under KDE). This is the stock 0.1.xx version that comes with
RH9.


However, about 1/3 of the time it sticks at the message 'Connecting with
the desktop using cable/cradle'. This isn't too bad;  I can 'cancel' and
then try again.

Another 1/3 of the time or so, however, it gets to the next stage,
determining the username (I can't remember the specific message on the
palm screen and I don't have it all in front of me). But this sends the
machine into a mode of disk thrashing for about 5 minutes where it's
essentially impossible to do anything else: the mouse doesn't move, I
can't ctrl-alt-Fn? to get to the console, nothing. Usually, this ends up
killing the gpilotd process.

This happens if I use gpilot-install-file or if I just sync. 

However, direct use of pilot-xfer for file installation works
perfectly, always.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, etc.

Andrew