FC2, Evolution, gpilotd dies w/several conduits

[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

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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
> >