[Bug 66355] Re: gpilotd locks up my Palm Z22

[Matt Davey]

Strange stuff.  Looks like a timing issue.
I'd strongly recommend seeing if you can get libusb syncing to work.

What happened when you set the timeout to zero in gnome-pilot?  Does it
just sit there forever trying to connect until you kill it?  You didn't
send output for the gpilotd+timeout=0 case above... (I know, I'm very
demanding)

In the pilot-xfer+timeout=2 case, did you try starting pilot-xfer BEFORE
starting the sync on the PDA?  That is most like the way that gpilotd
tries to connect: i.e. it'll try to connect the instant the pda is
detected.

Another thing to do is to try disabling HAL and restarting gpilotd.
(/etc/init.d/hald stop, or something like that).  That should fall back
to checking for new USB devices every 2 seconds, instead of getting HAL
notifications.  That will introduce a random element into the attempts
by gpilotd to connect.  You may find that gnome-pilot will connect
sometimes, and fail at other times.

Thanks for all your debugging.  It is very helpful.

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gpilotd locks up my Palm Z22
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66355