Comment 5 for bug 73733

I'm experiencing a similar issue, only it doesn't actually crash. What happens is the palm will time out and throw a "connection failed" error, while the hotsync progress dialog on the computer continues indefinitely, stuck on synchronizing ECalendar. I have to do a "killall gpilotd gpilot-control-applet gpilot-applet" to restore hotsync functionality. As this is not an actual crash I don't think there's any debugging symbols, but this seems to be a related issue. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and trying to synchronize a Handspring Visor Prism using the USB cradle. I've got the port set to usb:, but I've also tried running "modprobe visor" and setting it to ttyUSB0/1, with the same results.