On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:24 -0800, David L wrote: > >> > > > 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 My RPM versions (if it helps.) [gilboa@gilboa-home-dev build]$ rpm -qa | egrep 'pilot|evo' | sort evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4 evolution-data-server-1.2.3-3.fc4 gnome-pilot-2.0.13-4 gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.13-2 jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre10.fc4.1 pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2 pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2 Gilboa
