status of Palm Sync

[David L]

>> > > > 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

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