Palmpilot sync problems with both kpilot, jpilot, pilot-sync, ...

[William W. Austin]

About a week ago, suddenly my palm pilot (tungsten t3) stopped sync'ing  
with one of my computers (usb cradle).  I checked the cradle, the  
cables, the power, the connectors on the palm pilot, etc. - everything  
was fine.  Running usbview the device shows up normally.  Nothing  
unusual in /var/log/messages and dmesg showed nothing odd.  I had done  
no new rpms for a couple of weeks, so I was at a loss.  /dev/ttyUSB[01]  
were both created as normal, and one was linked to /dev/pilot.

I finally decided it might be a permissions problem, so I tried again  
as root.  Same deal - usbview sees the device, and the devices get  
created.  But no sync.

But since I could still sync with no problems at home, I didn't pursue  
the matter (very busy at work - new project with an impossible due date  
and no time to work on anything else).

Then Monday the same thing started happening at home as well.  So I  
thought it was my palm pilot.  But no, it can sync correctly with the  
same computer and in the same cradle if I boot to windoze.  (But I had  
updated several RPMS at home, so there could be something there,  
although since the problem now occurs on 2 different boxen, I doubt  
that this is the cause).  FWIW, it can also sync with my wife's laptop  
on her usb cradle (windoze again).

Any suggestions on how to debug this problem would be greatly  
appreciated.  I have RTFM'ed until I had exhausted everything I could  
find.

Please help if you think you have an idea on this one.

Thanks,

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William W. Austin                                 waustin at speakeasy.net
  "Life is just another phase I'm going through. this time, anyway ..."