kpilotDaemon crashes when "Backing up: Blazer"

[Matt Saunders]

A segfault occurs when kpilotDaemon attempts to back up Web pages on my Palm
Tungsten E2.

This is at the stage when the Palm is displaying "Synchronizing Web" and kpilot
is "Backing up: Blazer".

This appears to be a similar bug to one found in pilot-link, specific to larger
storage devices such as the Tungsten E2. It's described at
http://www.pilot-link.org/pipermail/pilot-link-general/2005-June/002434.html

[Matt Saunders (matts)]

Created an attachment (id=5104)
KDE crash information

[Matt Saunders (matts)]

Created an attachment (id=5105)
strace output from the crash

[Matt Saunders (matts)]

Created an attachment (id=5112)
kpilot syslog information

[Ben Challenor (ben-challenor)]

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu Dapper with another Tungsten E2. It crashes at Blazer and deletes all of my Calendar entries - luckily I have lots of backups.

I can provide any more information you need.

Thanks.
Ben

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Confirmed by another user.

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper (vr-movingparts)]

Hi guys. I'm the maintainer/developer of KPilot and I apologize for the problems you were having. This is an old bug, so I'm pretty sure you guys have just given up at this point, but this bug should be closed. The problem was with the version of pilot-link that you were using. If you'll notice from the first attachment (KDE crash information), what is listed is "/usr/lib/libpisock.so.8." This version came with pilot-link-0.11 or earlier and those versions cannot handle large database sizes, such as the newer ones like Blazer. So, the 2 solutions would have been to either tell KPilot to not back that database up in the configuration section, or to upgrade to a newer version of pilot-link.

Somewhere in the KDE 3.5 series, we made it a mandatory requirement for KPilot to have at least pilot-link/libpisock 12.0, so this problem doesn't exist anymore.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thanks a lot for the followup. :-)
Closing this now.