FC2, Evolution, gpilotd dies w/several conduits

[Mariano Draghi]

Hi,
I'm trying to sync my old PalmVx with Evolution, on FC2.
It worked perfectly in FC1, but now every time I try to sync, I get a 
pop-up alert telling me that gpilotd has died unexpectedly, and asking 
me if I want to inform the developers (which brings me a rather 
unusefull wizard to write a bugreport... which I'm calling unusefull 
because I get no info about the crash itself, so I don't know what's 
going on).

I tried with lower transfer rates, with no avail.

Here's a more detailed description of what I could find so far:
- The Backup Conduit is Ok.
- The Contacts Conduit works only in "Copy from Pilot" mode; if I try a 
real "sync", it crashes in the middle of the proccess.
- The ToDo Conduit works also Ok if I just "Copy from Pilot".
- The Calendar Conduit crashes either way (both syncing and copying from 
pilot)
- The Memo (new?) Conduit "seems" to work (i.e., it doesn't crash), but 
no data is transfered to the PC
- I haven't used / tested any other conduit.

I'd like to know if the Palm<->Evolution syncing is known to be broken 
in the FC2 boundled versions of Evolution & genome-pilot.

If not, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide me with some hints 
as to trace down the crash, in order to try to make a more usefull 
report of the problem.

Thanks!

[Reinhard Sy]

Hello,

I have the same problem with Evolution and gpilotd. Does you found any
fix for the problem ?

Here what I have installed (FC2) :

pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1
gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
evolution-1.4.6-2

Thanks
Reinhard

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:15, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to sync my old PalmVx with Evolution, on FC2.
> It worked perfectly in FC1, but now every time I try to sync, I get a 
> pop-up alert telling me that gpilotd has died unexpectedly, and asking 
> me if I want to inform the developers (which brings me a rather 
> unusefull wizard to write a bugreport... which I'm calling unusefull 
> because I get no info about the crash itself, so I don't know what's 
> going on).
>
> I tried with lower transfer rates, with no avail.
>
> Here's a more detailed description of what I could find so far:
> The Backup Conduit is Ok.
> The Contacts Conduit works only in "Copy from Pilot" mode; if I try a
>
> real "sync", it crashes in the middle of the proccess.
> The ToDo Conduit works also Ok if I just "Copy from Pilot".
> The Calendar Conduit crashes either way (both syncing and copying from
>
> pilot)
> The Memo (new?) Conduit "seems" to work (i.e., it doesn't crash), but
>
> no data is transfered to the PC
> I haven't used / tested any other conduit.
>
> I'd like to know if the Palm<->Evolution syncing is known to be broken 
> in the FC2 boundled versions of Evolution & genome-pilot.
>
> If not, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide me with some hints 
> as to trace down the crash, in order to try to make a more usefull 
> report of the problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Mariano

[James A. Giseburt]

Good Day!

I am also having the same problems.  gpilotd did not die unexpectedly
under FC1.  However, under FC2, it is extremely unreliable.  For me, it
seems to always die while syncing the calendar.  I have ended up with
duplicated events and other inconsistencies.  Frustrating!

I too have the following installed under FC2:

gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.10-2.1
pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1
evolution-1.4.6-2

And yes, the memo conduit doesn't do anything.  (It never has.  I use
memos to copy stuff from the Palm to my desktop and install-memo to copy
things from my desktop to my Palm.  How convenient!)

It would sure be nice if they made little memo pads (Post-It notes) in
Evolution for the Palm memos.  (I requested that of the Evolution folks
seems like three or four years ago.  I also requested a Journal.  I must
be the only person that used that feature in Micro$oft Outlook!  And I
synced the journal to Chapura's PocketJournal on my Palm also.)

I have been trying to convince people that Linux is usable for a desktop
for someone other than a techie.  However, problems like the gpilot
problem don't help my argument.  Not having the notes in Evolution
doesn't help my argument either.

I have been syncing my data with kpilot and Kontact just to have a
backup some place.  Kontact has the notes and a journal, but it seems to
be a little buggy yet and it is SLOW.  It is not bad for a first time
out, but the summary page needs to have more user customization
options.  Now if the kpilot folks could sync the Kontact journal with
Chapura's PocketJournal on the Palm, I would have to start considering
dumping Evolution for Kontact.

Jim

James A. Giseburt
Information Systems Manager        E-mail:  [e-mail]
Moline School District No. 40      Voice :  309.743.8990
2515 - 41st Street                 Fax   :  [phone]
Moline, IL   61265                 Web   :  http://www.molineschools.org

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 02:23, Reinhard Sy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the same problem with Evolution and gpilotd. Does you found any
> fix for the problem ?
>
> Here what I have installed (FC2) :
>
> pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1
> gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
> evolution-1.4.6-2
>
> Thanks
> Reinhard
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:15, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to sync my old PalmVx with Evolution, on FC2.
> > It worked perfectly in FC1, but now every time I try to sync, I get a 
> > pop-up alert telling me that gpilotd has died unexpectedly, and asking 
> > me if I want to inform the developers (which brings me a rather 
> > unusefull wizard to write a bugreport... which I'm calling unusefull 
> > because I get no info about the crash itself, so I don't know what's 
> > going on).
> >
> > I tried with lower transfer rates, with no avail.
> >
> > Here's a more detailed description of what I could find so far:
> > The Backup Conduit is Ok.
> > The Contacts Conduit works only in "Copy from Pilot" mode; if I try a
> >
> > real "sync", it crashes in the middle of the proccess.
> > The ToDo Conduit works also Ok if I just "Copy from Pilot".
> > The Calendar Conduit crashes either way (both syncing and copying from
> >
> > pilot)
> > The Memo (new?) Conduit "seems" to work (i.e., it doesn't crash), but
> >
> > no data is transfered to the PC
> > I haven't used / tested any other conduit.
> >
> > I'd like to know if the Palm<->Evolution syncing is known to be broken 
> > in the FC2 boundled versions of Evolution & genome-pilot.
> >
> > If not, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide me with some hints 
> > as to trace down the crash, in order to try to make a more usefull 
> > report of the problem.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -- 
> > Mariano

[Eric Tanguy]

Le ven 02/07/2004 à 06:11, James A. Giseburt a écrit :
> Good Day!
>
> I am also having the same problems.  gpilotd did not die unexpectedly
> under FC1.  However, under FC2, it is extremely unreliable.  For me, it
> seems to always die while syncing the calendar.  I have ended up with
> duplicated events and other inconsistencies.  Frustrating!
>
> I too have the following installed under FC2:
>
> gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
> gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.10-2.1
> pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1
> evolution-1.4.6-2
>
> And yes, the memo conduit doesn't do anything.  (It never has.  I use
> memos to copy stuff from the Palm to my desktop and install-memo to copy
> things from my desktop to my Palm.  How convenient!)
>
> It would sure be nice if they made little memo pads (Post-It notes) in
> Evolution for the Palm memos.  (I requested that of the Evolution folks
> seems like three or four years ago.  I also requested a Journal.  I must
> be the only person that used that feature in Micro$oft Outlook!  And I
> synced the journal to Chapura's PocketJournal on my Palm also.)
>
> I have been trying to convince people that Linux is usable for a desktop
> for someone other than a techie.  However, problems like the gpilot
> problem don't help my argument.  Not having the notes in Evolution
> doesn't help my argument either.
>
> I have been syncing my data with kpilot and Kontact just to have a
> backup some place.  Kontact has the notes and a journal, but it seems to
> be a little buggy yet and it is SLOW.  It is not bad for a first time
> out, but the summary page needs to have more user customization
> options.  Now if the kpilot folks could sync the Kontact journal with
> Chapura's PocketJournal on the Palm, I would have to start considering
> dumping Evolution for Kontact.
>
> Jim
>
> James A. Giseburt
> Information Systems Manager        E-mail:  [e-mail]
> Moline School District No. 40      Voice :  309.743.8990
> 2515 - 41st Street                 Fax   :  [phone]
> Moline, IL   61265                 Web   :  http://www.molineschools.org
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 02:23, Reinhard Sy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the same problem with Evolution and gpilotd. Does you found any
> > fix for the problem ?
> >
> > Here what I have installed (FC2) :
> >
> > pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1
> > gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
> > evolution-1.4.6-2
> >
> > Thanks
> > Reinhard
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:15, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to sync my old PalmVx with Evolution, on FC2.
> > > It worked perfectly in FC1, but now every time I try to sync, I get a 
> > > pop-up alert telling me that gpilotd has died unexpectedly, and asking 
> > > me if I want to inform the developers (which brings me a rather 
> > > unusefull wizard to write a bugreport... which I'm calling unusefull 
> > > because I get no info about the crash itself, so I don't know what's 
> > > going on).
> > >
> > > I tried with lower transfer rates, with no avail.
> > >
> > > Here's a more detailed description of what I could find so far:
> > > The Backup Conduit is Ok.
> > > The Contacts Conduit works only in "Copy from Pilot" mode; if I try a
> > >
> > > real "sync", it crashes in the middle of the proccess.
> > > The ToDo Conduit works also Ok if I just "Copy from Pilot".
> > > The Calendar Conduit crashes either way (both syncing and copying from
> > >
> > > pilot)
> > > The Memo (new?) Conduit "seems" to work (i.e., it doesn't crash), but
> > >
> > > no data is transfered to the PC
> > > I haven't used / tested any other conduit.
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if the Palm<->Evolution syncing is known to be broken 
> > > in the FC2 boundled versions of Evolution & genome-pilot.
> > >
> > > If not, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide me with some hints 
> > > as to trace down the crash, in order to try to make a more usefull 
> > > report of the problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Mariano

If you this type of error when gpilotd crashes : 
(process:6384): GLib-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file gstring.c: line 672
(g_string_erase): assertion `pos >= 0' failed
aborting...
it's a glib2 problem and you can a patch here :
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mcdavey/downloads/index.html#glib2-patch

I found this in the gnome-pilot-list and it works fine for me.

Eric

[James A. Giseburt]

Good Day!

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 00:46, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> Le ven 02/07/2004 à 06:11, James A. Giseburt a écrit :
> > Good Day!
> >
> > I am also having the same problems.  gpilotd did not die unexpectedly
> > under FC1.  However, under FC2, it is extremely unreliable.  For me, it
> > seems to always die while syncing the calendar.  I have ended up with
> > duplicated events and other inconsistencies.  Frustrating!
> >
> > <snip>
>
> If you this type of error when gpilotd crashes : 
> (process:6384): GLib-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file gstring.c: line 672
> (g_string_erase): assertion `pos >= 0' failed
> aborting...
> it's a glib2 problem and you can a patch here :
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mcdavey/downloads/index.html#glib2-patch
>
> I found this in the gnome-pilot-list and it works fine for me.
>
> Eric

I installed the patched glib2 packages and gpilot no longer crashes.  I
then installed the gnome-pilot memo-file patch, also on the same web
site, and my memos now sync nicely.

Thank you Eric for taking the time to help!

I really appreciate it!

Jim

James A. Giseburt
Information Systems Manager        E-mail:  [e-mail]
Moline School District No. 40      Voice :  309.743.8990
2515 - 41st Street                 Fax   :  [phone]
Moline, IL   61265                 Web   :  http://www.molineschools.org