Re: gpilotd sync stopped working

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct debian org>]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:18 +0100, Matt Davey wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:36 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm running Debian lenny (testing) with pilot-link 0.12.3-4 and
> > gnome-pilot 2.0.15-2.1.  Sometime in the past 3-4 weeks (don't know
> > exactly what upgrade), sync stopped working.  I plug in my Treo 700, hit
> > sync, and nothing happens.  None of my old tricks involving timing a
> > gpilotd restart or continue with the sync work (tried everything from 10
> > secs before to 10 secs after at 1 sec intervals).  And nothing shows up
> > in .xsession-errors when I sync, it's as if gpilotd doesn't know
> > anything is going on.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Any ideas on what could be wrong with my setup?
> 
> Hmm.  One possibility is that HAL has been updated (see thread from
> Frederic Crozat from March 21st last).
> 
> You might be able to check this by suspending hald and restarting
> gpilotd.  gpilotd should fall back to polling /proc for detection of USB
> devices.

Yes!  That made it work.  Thank you.

I'll file a bug noting this patch.  Oh wait, there's a more recent
amd64 .deb NMU which disables HAL (2.0.15-2.2).  That might fix the
problem reported [1] but the better long-term fix is Frederic's patch,
right?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/441652

Thanks again,
-Adam
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