Re: Gnome Pilot Causing USB Drive problems (version 2.0.10)

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 22:37 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> I understood that from your first message, but it doesn't necessarily
> mean its the fault of gnome-pilot :-).  As I tried to explain, gnome-
> pilot simply accesses the device (in the same manner as pilot-link I
> might add, since it uses pilot-link once it detects the device via
> polling).  So, it would narrow the problem to polling. Some quick
> googling found http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-
> users lists sourceforge net/msg11221.html

This is interesting - my laptop has for a long time had problems with
mass storage and other USB devices - for example my camera (USB mass
storage) will not reliably move data to it, and I have never managed to
get gnomad2 working with my Creative Zen MP3 player.

So I tried it today - still not working - and then told the (normally
always running) gnome-pilot applet to "Pause Daemon".  Now these things
work.

Its not just the USB devices poll thats lousing things up - a shell
script that looped doing cat /proc/bus/usb/devices >/dev/null did not
stop the USB transfers in the same way, so some of the other stuff that
gnome-pilotd is doing is upsetting things - I see polling and file
handle activity chatting to orbit etc, don't see how those would affect
things.

> Does the gpilotd debug spew provide any insight?  What is the gnome-
> pilot configuration you are using?  It seems relevant that in other
> googling these types of errors didn't start appearing until kernel 2.6
> showed up (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128602).

I have seen this problem with 2.4.x kernels - I think both RH/Fedora and
stock (self-build) kernels, although its a while since I ran those.  I
just hadn't realised gnome-pilot was a factor in the equation and had
made the assumption that my laptop hardware was crap.

	Nigel.

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