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

[Matthew Saltzman]

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
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