Sync of Palm T2 to Evolution on Ubuntu 6.10 hangs

[Kevin Ruscoe <kevin sapphireoflondon org>]

Hi

I am trying to sync a Palm T2 to Evolution running on Ubuntu 6.10 with 
all updates installed. gpilotd (I assume) successfully creates the 
/dev/pilot device and the sync has completed a couple of times. Almost 
always though, it appears to hang.

I have tried using /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 rather than /dev/pilot 
(as described at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...palm+evolution 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77387&highlight=palm+evolution> 
) but this made no difference.

$ ps -ef|grep pilot
ruscoekm 14597 1 0 12:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpilot-applet 
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_PilotApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=35
ruscoekm 14694 1 0 12:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpilotd 
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Pilot_Daemon --oaf-ior-fd=31
ruscoekm 14751 14404 0 12:37 pts/0 00:00:00 grep pilot

$ gpilotd --version
gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.14 starting...
gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.12.1
gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
Gnome gnome-pilot 2.0.14

$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/pilot
zsh: no matches found: /dev/ttyUSB*

### Press Hotsync button ###

$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/pilot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 23 12:40 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Dec 23 12:40 /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 1 Dec 23 12:40 /dev/ttyUSB1

gnome-pilot Settings dialog appears (I hit close).
gnome-pilot Settings dialog appears (I hit close again).

Sync times out on handheld.

Output from /var/log/messages:

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Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.240000] usb 5-2.3: new full 
speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.332000] usb 5-2.3: 
configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.560000] usbcore: registered new 
driver usbserial
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.564000] 
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.564000] usbcore: registered new 
driver usbserial_generic
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.564000] 
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.572000] 
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for 
Handspring Visor / Palm OS
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.572000] 
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony 
Clie 3.5
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.572000] 
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony 
Clie 5.0
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.576000] visor 5-2.3:1.0: 
Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.580000] usb 5-2.3: Handspring 
Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.580000] usb 5-2.3: Handspring 
Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.580000] usbcore: registered new 
driver visor
Dec 23 12:40:17 laptop kernel: [17180012.580000] 
drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver
Dec 23 12:40:40 laptop kernel: [17180034.820000] usb 5-2.3: USB 
disconnect, address 7
Dec 23 12:40:40 laptop kernel: [17180034.820000] visor 5-2.3:1.0: device 
disconnected
Dec 23 12:40:40 laptop kernel: [17180034.824000] visor ttyUSB0: 
Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
Dec 23 12:40:40 laptop kernel: [17180034.824000] visor ttyUSB1: 
Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
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Regards
Kevin