Re: gpilotd hangs on initial sync with Handspring Visor

["John T. Guthrie" <guthrie counterexample org>]

Thank you for this advice.  I t pointed me in the correct direction.
What I did is I took the gnome-pilot RPM that is being put out with the
test1 version of FC5, gnome-pilot-2.0.13-7.fc5 in particular.  I
recompiled this RPM for FC4 to get an RPM gnome-pilot-2.0.13-7.fc4.
This seems to work beautifully on FC4 with evolution-2.2.3.  It looks
like they have some other patches in that RPM that seems to make it
work.  Here is the URL for the original source rpm:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/test/4.90/SRPMS/gnome-pilot-2.0.13-7.fc5.src.rpm

(Adjust this URL to your favorite Fedora repository.)  If people would
like, I can post a link to the source rpm that I have created for this.
I hope this helps.

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:35 -0800, Nathan Owens wrote:
> I see you're using pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4. The released versions of gnome-pilot
> don't support pilot-link 0.12.0 unless the Fedora people fixed that for their
> own release - which I don't think they have, as other people using Fedora have
> had this same problem.
> 
> If you want to use that version of pilot-link, you can try getting gnome-pilot
> from CVS. On Nov. 3, JP sent an e-mail to the list saying CVS supports the 0.12
> version of pilot-link.
> 
> If you don't want to use the CVS version of gnome-pilot, download pilot-link
> 0.11.8. gnome-pilot works very well with this version.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Nathan Owens
> 
> --- "John T. Guthrie III" <guthrie counterexample org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have trying without much success to get my Handsrping Visor to sync
> > via USB.  I was finally able to configure udev to not remove /dev/ttyUSB1
> > after the handspring was finishing.  This was causing gpilotd to crash, I
> > guess
> > because it couldn't find the device files to open.  Now I can start
> > gpilotd through the gpilotd-control-applet, but when I try to do the
> > initial sync the Visor starts syncing, and then finishes sync'ing right away,
> > and says that the sync was successful.  However, the gpilotd applet says on
> > the screen that says that its about to send my identifying data to the pilot.
> > I never get the option of going forward; I can only go back or cancel, and
> > the applet nothing after the pilot syncs.  I am able to send data using
> > pilot-link, so I was wondering is there something that I'm doing wrong, or
> > should I file a bug report.
> > 
> > I am using Fedora Core 4, with kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp, gnome-pilot
> > version 2.0.13, pilot-link 0.12.0-pre5.  The rpm versions for the last two
> > are
> > gnome-pilot-2.0.13-2 and pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2 respectively.
> > 
> > Also, I hope that this is not an issue, but I am trying to do this through
> > the
> > enlightenment window manager, not gnome.  (I'm using e16-0.16.8-0.18.fc4.)
> > 
> > Here is the dmesg info:
> > 
> > usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
> > usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS: port 1, is for Generic use
> > usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS: port 2, is for HotSync use
> > usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS: Number of ports: 2
> > visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
> > usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> > usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> > usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
> > visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from
> > ttyUSB
> > 0
> > visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from
> > ttyUSB
> > 1
> > visor 1-1:1.0: device disconnected
> > 
> > Here is the output of gpilotd as captured in my X output file:
> > 
> > gpilotd-Message: Activating object OAFIID:GNOME_Pilot_Daemon
> > ** Message: No pilot userid/username information located
> > ** Message: Unable to load pilot id/username, assuming unset
> > ** Message: No pilot cradle information located
> > ** Message: Unable to load pilot cradle info, assuming unset
> > ** Message: No pilot userid/username information located
> > ** Message: Unable to load pilot id/username, assuming unset
> > ** Message: No pilot cradle information located
> > ** Message: Unable to load pilot cradle info, assuming unset
> > 
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> > 
> > John Guthrie
> > guthrie counterexample org

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John Guthrie
guthrie counterexample org