String descriptor error

[Seth Williamson]

After getting zero replies (so far as I could determine) to my pleas for
help with the Evolution and gnome-pilot problems, I finally gave up and
reinstalled.

All through the re-install, I kept seeing that same error message,
sometimes a dozen times in a row:

usb 2-1.2: string descriptor 0 read error: 110

It would pop up as some packages were being installed and configured.  I
must have seen it a hundred times during the install.

This is the same error message that I would see repeatedly during a
reboot before.  While rebooting, I noticed that I could make it hurry up
past this point by unplugging my Epson PhotoStylus 785 EPX printer from
the USB port.

Can somebody please tell me what this error means?  And what I should do
about it, if anything?  I googled it and found nothing.

Also, I am now afraid to try to use gnome pilot, since the disaster with
Evolution losing all my mail and contacts happened after the pilot stuff
was locking up on me.  I don't know that it was related, but my
assumption is that it probably was.  Is anybody using jpilot
successfully?  I couldn't get gnome-pilot to recognize the cradle of my
T3 no matter what name I used, /dev/pilot or any of the others.


Seth Williamson
Daleville, VA