Re: Unable to Sync my T2 with gnome pilot using USB

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:36 +0100, Thomas Schiex wrote:
> Sorry to disturb you again Matt.  Making static device nodes did help
> but I claimed victory way too rapidly. Pilot-xfer did work... once ! I
> launched the pilot applet... Not working. I removed the applet. 
> 
> I came back to pilot-xfer level: I got SegFault.  I tried to reboot (a
> stupid Windo$ reflex,I should have killed a pending gpilotd probably).
> Segfault disappeared but
> 
> 1) pilot xfer
> 2) click hotsync
> 
> leaves pilot-xfer in a state where it is waiting for the "HotSync
> button" to be pressed.
> 
> It looks like there are time races smewhere. I take ideas and I will
> continue
> to dig.

I guess the redhat forum you came across is related to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158809

A udev upgrade might help.
Also, as comment #16 in the above link points out, udev can remove
created device nodes.... but I don't suppose that's your problem.

If you're in a determined move, you could try installing the latest
version of pilot-link (I can recommend the CVS version; the official
0.12.0pre{2,3,4} releases are broken, and most of the patched ones,
too).  I believe the 0.12.0 versions of pilot-link do try to retry
devices several times before giving up.

If that works, you can (temporarily) get a patched version of gnome-
pilot from http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mcdavey/downloads/

Please keep us posted on any progress!

Matt