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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] kpilot still broken in 3.5.6?
From:       "Justin Nawrocki" <justinnawrocki () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-06 7:05:49
Message-ID: d8f2fdc20702052305q21aa215cp61751b3cc32665fc () mail ! gmail ! com
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Okay, I managed to compile from SVN and am up an running with kpilot,
but here are the symptoms I'm getting.  I'd like to run them by other
people before doing anything like submitting a bug report, because I'm
not really what I'd submit it under!

*It seems that my calendar entries are now being synced back and
forth.  This is great news.  However, I noticed that if I DELETE any
entries on the PC side and then try to sync, they won't be deleted on
the Palm side after sync, and then when I try to do anything in
Kontact, it crashes.  So for now I've been just deleting things on the
Palm side.  That works flawlessly.

*Addressbook syncing is bizarre.  I changed a bunch of addresses on
the Palm over the weekend, and upon first sync kpilot asked me which
(PC or Palm) records to use.  On each record I told it to use the Palm
records, except for one where I wanted to use the PC records.
Regardless of what I wanted though, none of the changes showed up in
Kontact.  Oddly, they DID show up in the Kpilot Addressviewer, though
the categories I had put them into had been lost.  I think it has
something to do with categories because this one category I'd made (in
Japanese) got duplicated every time I synced, and all contacts ended
up in there.  I'll try fiddling a bit more.

*The Kpilot main window refuses to come up.  If I manually start
kpilot the window will come up, but otherwise all I have is the tray
icon.  Double-clicking does nothing.  The "Start KPilot" option in the
right-click context menu also does nothing.  If I can get this fixed,
then maybe I can have more useful information about the abovementioned
Addressbook problem.

But first things first, any ideas about why the kpilot window refuses
to come up?

Thanks as always!

Justin

On 2/2/07, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vr@movingparts.net> wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:23, Justin Nawrocki wrote:
> [snip]
> > *I'm trying to sync a Sony Clie PEG-TJ25 (Japanese version), via USB.  I'm
> > using SJIS encoding which seems to be the best, but to be honest I don't
> > know whether I should be using that, EUCJP, or JIS7.
>
> Oh boy.  Well, I have no idea what language you should choose, unfortunately.
> =:/
>
> > *I am typically trying just a plain Hotsync, but also PC->PDA, etc. have
> > the same effect
> > *What happened is that on first sync, all of my information (contacts,
> > calendar, ToDo, etc.) was synced to the PC, and the calendar (and ToDo) was
> > completely wiped from the PDA.  Addressbook entries and programs stayed.
> > Every time I try to resync, Addressbook entries will be synced but calendar
> > entries will not.
>
> That is really weird.  We've had people report this problem with earlier
> versions of kpilot, but this is the first I've heard of it happening with
> kpilot 4.9.0.
>
> > *One time kpilot crashed upon calendar sync, and I have included the
> > backtrace with this email.  Otherwise, I never see an error.
>
> That's the first I've heard of that happening too.  Can you file a bug report
> with this information please?
>
> > I have also
> > included the kpilot-syslog.html with this email.  I noticed it has some
> > weird information, like it can't detect the Device Model and stuff, and it
> > lists PalmOS as 1.2 (it's not, it's 4.5 I believe).
>
> Yeah, I just looked at my kpilot-syslog.html file and it has the same thing.
> I think it's a pilot-link problem.
>
> > I hope this feedback will help, even if I can't get it working.  I'm
> > currently trying to get the SVN version working but for some cmake
> > problems.  Hopefully I can provide debug info when/if I get that working.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Martin Bernreuther <MartinBern@web.de>
> > > To: kdepim-users@kde.org
> > > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:03:56 +0100
> > > Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] kpilot still broken in 3.5.6?
> > >
> > > Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 schrieb Justin Nawrocki:
> > > > Like many people I've been wondering why KPilot will suck all of my
> > >
> > > calendar
> > >
> > > > entries off of my PDA but then won't sync back to the PDA.  All the
> > >
> > > reading
> > >
> > > > I've been doing suggests "wait until 3.5.6."  Well, 3.5.6 is out and
> > > > I'm still not able to sync my calendar back to my PDA.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using SuSE 10.2 and just installed the newest KPilot rpm that was
> > > > released a few days ago with kpilot 4.9.0 and pilot-link 0.12.1.
> > >
> > > Like many people, I'm using kpilot quite successfully...
> > > I'm using OpenSUSE 10.2 with KPilot 4.9.0 (still a SVN version) and
> > > pilot-link 0.12.1.
> > >
> > > > What can be done?
> > >
> > > Good question! Not much, I guess!
> > > All the reading you've been done should suggest to give
> > > a little bit more information.
> > >
> > > The reader of this eMail still isn't informed about
> > > - which PDA you use (the problem might be specific to a PDA type and
> > > maybe needs a special workaround)
> > > - The connection type (USB, serial, Bluetooth, WLAN,...) should play a
> > > role since the connection seems to work.
> > > - Settings (if you chose "PDA to PC" the described behaviour is quite
> > > normal, but this was presumably a hotsync or fastsync)
> > > - More descriptive information about the error ("won't sync back" is
> > > quite short)
> > >  - Output, Error messages, log file content,...
> > >  - Debug information from a debug enabled version is probably quite
> > > useful!
> > > -...
> > > Even if there's no solution at the moment, the feed back should at least
> > > draw an image about which combinations and functionalities are
> > > critical... kpilot might still broken in 3.5.6, but it's also helpful to
> > > find out what "broken" means exactly.
> > >
> > >
> > > BTW, I'm synchronizing my Palm TX with a USB cable using the
> > > "usb:" device setting and that works quite well. There's a (known)
> > > problem with the kpilot GUI (freezing), but I usually don't use the GUI!
> > > I didn't have problems here recently, but reading these emails about
> > > people having
> > > problems with it, I think that it might be a good idea, if kpilot
> > > automatically
> > > does a backup of the korganizer calendar file just before starting the
> > > synchronization.
> > > In this case, the calendar file seems not to be damaged though and also
> > > the pilot calendar is OK.
> > > But the nuisance here seems to be, that new KOrganizer entries are not
> > > copied to the pilot during a hotsync?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >        Martin Bernreuther
> > >
> > > --
> > > _________________________________________
> > > Martin Bernreuther      MartinBern@web.de
>
> --
>
> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------//
> | Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper :: Numbers 6:22-26
> `
> | All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker
> | in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is
> | the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.
> ,
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