status of Palm Sync
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 18:25:56 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 10:13 -0800, David L wrote:
> >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
Never tried the exchange connector. May you are hitting a different bug
altogether...
I just logged into another machine. (i386 on this one.)
Here's the RPMs version.
[gilboa at gilboa-work-dev Evo]$ rpm -qa | egrep 'evo|pilot' | sort
evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-connector-2.2.2-5
evolution-data-server-1.2.3-3.fc4
evolution-webcal-2.2.0-1
gnome-pilot-2.0.13-4
gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.13-2
pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2
pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2
Gilboa
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