Palmpilot sync problems with both kpilot, jpilot, pilot-sync, ...
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Aug 4 02:58:10 UTC 2005
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, William W. Austin wrote:
> 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.
(1) What versions of gnome-pilot and pilot-link are you running? I
haven't been able to sync at all.
(2) Did you update selinx-policy-targeted? What happens if you disable
selinux?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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