Re: gnome-pilot doesn't sync my palm device

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:04 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
> OK, first up, sorry that there's not much info in that header, but
> that's more or less all I have. I installed Suse Linux 10.1 and am
> trying to sync my palm device (actually a fairly aged Sony Clie) with
> Evolution.
> 
> I have added the applet to the toolbar but when I hit sync on the
> device, it appears to crash the applet. I've tried running
> /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-pilot/gpilotd in isolation, and it notices that
> the /dev/pilot device pops into existence (this is USB) but then does
> nothing. If I have a non-zero timeout, it eventually times out.
> Sometimes, but not often, the palm device dies with a message "Fatal
> Exception" and has to be reset from the paperclip hole.
> 
> So, that's about all I know about the gnome-pilot failure. Perhaps
> there are other diagnostics I could run?
> 
> Oh, if I run pilot-xfer, that works... It lists the databases, it
> copies them, just works fine. However, that copies pdb files, and those
> aren't readable to Evolution, so it doesn't really help beyond proving
> the hardware and basic OS configuration.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You may have hit the bugs reported in these items:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=165455
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321947

I haven't been following Suse 10.1, but there was a known bug in their
gnome-pilot package recently enough.  I don't know if the fix
has been pushed to 10.1 updates, but it was certainly available from
the factory repository, as:
gnome-pilot-2.0.13-45.src.rpm.

Let us know how you get on.  If you still have problems, let us know
what gnome-pilot and pilot-link packages you are using.  Suse have patched
both of these, so let us know the full Suse package version, rather than
just the base gnome-pilot/pilot-link version number.

Hope this helps,

Matt

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