status of Palm Sync

[David L]

>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:24 -0800, David L wrote:
> > >> > > > I just bought a Treo 650 and was looking for info about how to 
>use
> > >>it
> > >> > >with
> > >> > > > FC4 when I found the posting below which says FC4 is 
>"completely
> > >>broken
> > >> > >with
> > >> > > > respect to Palm syncronization".  Is this supposed to be 
>addressed
> > >>in
> > >> > >FC5,
> > >> > > > or should I "downgrade" to FC3?  Has anybody synced a Treo with
> > >> > >Evolution in
> > >> > > > FC5-test1?
> > >[snip]
> > >> > >
> > >> > >Palm syn still broken. The latest packages might have solved the
> > >>problem
> > >> > >for a couple of people, but at least in my case, I still need Mark 
>G.
> > >> > >Adams' RPMs (see below) to get my Palm to sync.
> > >> > >I've given up on bug-reports.
> > >> > >Last time I counted, I found ~10 bugs related to udev ttyUSB, 
>pilot-*
> > >> > >and gnome-pilot)
> > >> > >
> > >> > >I'm using the fix from:
> > >> > >http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/people/mark_adams/
> > [snip]
> > >>B. I created a /etc/dev directory and created the two ttyUSB0/1 nodes 
>by
> > >>hand, pointing all pilot devices to the static device entries. This
> > >>solves all udev problems.
> > >
> > >This worked!  It was weird... udev seemed to be creating the nodes
> > >(although it took a little while), but when I statically create the 
>device
> > >entries, pilot-xfer is much happier.  So far, all I've done is back up, 
>but
> > >that's finally working.  :)  Now I'll try more complicated things like
> > >evolution sync.
> >
> > I've had little luck with evolution.  It seems to crash a little bit 
>more
> > often on startup since I've updated the pilot rpms... I don't know if 
>that's
> > just a coincidence or not.  Evolution has always crashed 2x per day for 
>me.
> > One error I got was:
> >
> > GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 160 (): error 'Device or
> > resource busy' during 'pthread_mutex_destroy ((pthread_mutex_t *) 
>mutex)'
> > aborting...
> > Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog
> >
> >
> > I managed to sync one contact.  When I tried to sync my calendar, it 
>started
> > to do something and then I got a message on my Treo saying "The 
>connecttion
> > between your handheld computer and the desktop was lost.  Some of your 
>data
> > was NOT backed up. gnome-pilot v.2.0.13."
> >
> > Then a minute later on my computer: The application
> > "evolution-exchange-storage" has quit unexpectedly.  When I select 
>"Inorm
> > Devolopers" and select evolution, it says "This application has bug
> > information, but Bug Buddy doesn't know about it.  Please choose another
> > application."
> >
> > Then I get a message saying "Evolution tasks have quit unexpectedly"... 
>then
> > "evolution calendar has crashed unexpectedly".
> >
> > The installed RPMs for evolution have newer version numbers than the 
>ones on
> > the http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/people/mark_adams/ site, so I didn't
> > install them... should I install them even though their version is 
>older?
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> >                              David
>
>My RPM versions (if it helps.)
>[gilboa at gilboa-home-dev build]$ rpm -qa | egrep 'pilot|evo' | sort
>evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4
>evolution-data-server-1.2.3-3.fc4
>gnome-pilot-2.0.13-4
>gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.13-2
>jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre10.fc4.1
>pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2
>pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2
>
>Gilboa
I have all of the same ones... additionally, I have:

evolution-connector-2.2.2-5
evolution-data-server-devel-1.2.3-3.fc4
evolution-devel-2.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-webcal-2.2.0-1
gnome-pilot-conduits-debuginfo-2.0.13-2
gnome-pilot-debuginfo-2.0.13-4
gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.13-4

I've managed to sync one calendar event to my local calendar... before I was 
trying to sync to my exchange calendar.  I don't know if the problem was due 
to an interaction between sync and the evolution-connector or a much larger 
number of events, but it seems happier with a few local events.

Thanks again...

                                      David

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