Re: [Evolution] Palm syncing

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:17 +0100, Cornelis Swanepoel wrote:
>         On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:40 +0100, Cornelis Swanepoel wrote: 
>         > I've changed the timeout to 100.
>         > Now I can sync once successfully with evolution but every
>         subsequent
>         > sync gets stuck at "Identifying User" again.
>         >[...]
>         
>         I do a killall -9 gpilotd - then I restart gpilotd by going to
>         Edit->Synchronization Options in Evolution.  Then I can sync
>         again.....
>         once more anyway.
>         
>         I'm going to bump my timeout to see if that helps. 
>         
>         Lonnie Borntreger
> 
> killall -9 gpilotd does the trick, thanks Lonnie.
> I would prefer not to have to do it after every sync though.
> 
> Any ideas? 

Without knowing what version of gnome-pilot and pilot-link you're using,
it's hard to give specific advice.  In a previous posting, Nathan Owens
suggested starting gpilotd in a terminal window to get more info, and
let us know what gnome-pilot and pilot-link packages you have installed,
and what distribution you're using. 

There are known bugs in pretty much all packaged versions of
gnome-pilot, as far as I know.  Some of these bugs are due to patches
applied by the packager. Other problems are due to problems with
pilot-link (gnome-pilot uses some pilot-link features that are not used
by jpilot, pilot-xfer, etc, so just because these other packages work
doesn't mean the problem lies within gnome-pilot code).

One specific question: do you have '/dev/ttyUSB*' files persisting after
your successful sync?

There is a pre-release version of gnome-pilot available, that has fixed
a lot of problems.  You can get more information from the wiki page:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomePilot

Regards,

Matt

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