Ubuntu
gnome-pilot package

Gpilotd does not reply to all sync request

Bug #62310 reported by Olivier Blanc
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-pilot (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu PDA team

Bug Description

Here is the output :

LC_ALL=C gpilotd -d -d -d
gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.14 starting...
gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.12.1
gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
gpilotd-Message: Activating CORBA server
gpilotd-Message: bonobo_activation_active_server_register = 0
gpilotd-Message: Watching Cradle (/dev/pilot)
gpilotd-Message: Found 4766, 0001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0502, 0736
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 091e, 0004
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 115e, f100
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0100
gpilotd-Message: Using net FALSE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0200
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0300
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0c88, 0021
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0002
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0003
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0020
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0031
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0040
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0050
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0060
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0061
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0070
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0080
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 04e8, 8001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 04e8, 6601
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0038
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0066
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0095
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 009a
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00c9
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00da
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00e9
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0144
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0169
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 12ef, 0100
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: setting PILOTRATE=115200

(gnome-pilot:15026): gpilotd-WARNING **: pi_accept_to returned -202: No such file or directory

(gnome-pilot:15026): gpilotd-WARNING **: pi_accept_to: timeout was 10 secs

Extracts fom dmesg :
[17185973.152000] usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[17185973.280000] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17185973.468000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
[17185973.468000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[17185973.468000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
[17185973.468000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[17185973.476000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS
[17185973.476000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5
[17185973.476000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0
[17185973.480000] visor 1-1.2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
[17185973.480000] usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[17185973.480000] usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[17185973.484000] usbcore: registered new driver visor
[17185973.484000] drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver
[17186038.996000] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, address 3
[17186038.996000] visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[17186038.996000] visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
[17186038.996000] visor 1-1.2:1.0: device disconnected

The next try, in the same gpilotd process works :

gpilotd-Message: setting PILOTRATE=115200
gpilotd-Message: Device Cradle has 0 events
gpilotd-Message: Instantiating 5 conduits...
...
gpilotd-Message: Synchronization ended
** Message: time_file: destroying time conduit

The next try gives :
gpilotd-Message: setting PILOTRATE=115200

(gnome-pilot:15026): gpilotd-WARNING **: pi_accept_to returned -202: No such file or directory

(gnome-pilot:15026): gpilotd-WARNING **: pi_accept_to: timeout was 10 secs

Revision history for this message
Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Which PDA do you use with it?

Changed in gnome-pilot:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) wrote :

It is a Palm Tungsten T3

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks. I forwarded the issue to the upstream bug tracker: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357762

Changed in gnome-pilot:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Comment from the upstream developer:

ot sure what's causing this problem.

Here's one thing to test:
kill gpilotd (you may need to remove the pilot applet from the panel, and then
do 'killall gpilotd' from a terminal window).

Now try running pilot-xfer:
pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l
(or /dev/ttyUSB0, or /dev/ttyUSB1, I'm not sure which is right for the T3)

Does pilot-xfer work reliably, or do you have the same problems as with
gnome-pilot? If it is just as unreliable, then I'd recommend bugging
the pilot-link people:
    http://www.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-general
It's just possible that you're getting a regression with the new pilot-link
major version, 0.12.

Changed in gnome-pilot:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) wrote :

pilot-xfer seems to be reliable... I tried 10 times, and it worked the 10 times.

I made some more tests on Gpilotd.... it worked each time.
I upgraded to udev 093-0ubuntu16
and I guess that's what was causing the problem...

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

So the new udev made it work?

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Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) wrote :

yes. I'll keep an eye on it during future upgrade

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Matt Davey (mcdavey) wrote :

I've seen this a few times, and what appears to be happening is that /dev/pilot starts pointing to the 'wrong' ttyUSB device. When this happens you'll see the "pi_accept_to returned -202" messages (-202 means 'timeout' in pilot-link speak).

If this is a problem for you, you have two options:
1. choose /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1, as appropriate for your pda, instead of /dev/pilot.
2. If you're running pilot-link-0.12.x, migrate to libusb syncing instead of usbserial.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-pilot:
assignee: desktop-bugs → ubuntu-pda
Revision history for this message
Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) wrote :

can be closed.
All is working fine now.

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Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron) wrote :

Thanks for your feed back.

Changed in gnome-pilot:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) wrote :

It seems that the problem is back with version 2.0.15-2ubuntu3
running on Linux bibi2 2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 17:20:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux (Intrepid)

Here is the output of gpilotd :

$ LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/gpilotd -d -d -d
gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.15 starting...
gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.12.3
gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
gpilotd-Message: Activating CORBA server
gpilotd-Message: bonobo_activation_active_server_register = 0
gpilotd-Message: Watching Cradle (usb:)
gpilotd-Message: Found 4766, 0001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0502, 0736
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 091e, 0004
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 115e, f100
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0100
gpilotd-Message: Using net FALSE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0200
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 082d, 0300
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0c88, 0021
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0002
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0003
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0020
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0031
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0040
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0050
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0060
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0061
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0070
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 0830, 0080
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 04e8, 8001
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 04e8, 6601
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0038
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0066
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0095
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 009a
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00c9
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00da
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 00e9
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0144
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 054c, 0169
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE
gpilotd-Message: Found 12ef, 0100
gpilotd-Message: Using net TRUE

Nothing more.... and nothing happens

Here is the output of dmesg :
[ 2753.676187] usb 1-7.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
[ 2753.808898] usb 1-7.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2819.648146] usb 1-7.4: USB disconnect, address 11

I tried many times I always have the same response from gpilotd.

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Arthur Lutz (arthur-lutz) wrote :

same here

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Arthur Lutz (arthur-lutz) wrote :

stopping hald resolves this bug. see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484509

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