Bug 189208 – kpilot freezes when synchronizing with palm treo 650

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jon Sporring 2007-08-17 09:01:14 UTC]

After upgrading to stable kde 3.5.7, I can no longer synchronize my palm with my kde files.  Synchronization starts off in the usual fashion but freezes at first item: calendar synchronization.  Thereafter I cannot repeat until after a reboot.  I'm unsure how to diagnose problem, but it appears to be one of the programs, kpilot depends on that crashes.  Here is the status of my system:

rose ~ # equery list kpilot
[ Searching for package 'kpilot' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kpilot-3.5.5 (3.5)
rose ~ # equery list pilot-link
[ Searching for package 'pilot-link' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] app-pda/pilot-link-0.11.8 (0)
rose ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium-m -march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fweb -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium-m -march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fweb -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo.diku.dk/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_US da"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.diku.dk/gentoo-portage/"
USE="X Xaw3d acl acpi alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam fftw firefox fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap lzw-tiff mad maildir midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl stl svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US da" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start kpilot
2.Connect palm treo 650 via usb to machine
3.Press sync button on

[Comment 1 Jon Sporring 2007-08-17 09:04:28 UTC]

By the way, here is the output from kpilot until freeze point:

Version: KPilot 4.6.0 (blivit)
Version: pilot-link 0.11.8
Version: KDE 3.5.7
Version: Qt 3.3.8

HotSync Log

10:43:26 Daemon status is `Waiting for sync'
10:43:44 Device link ready.
10:43:44 Checking last PC...
10:43:44 KPilot 4.6.0 (blivit) HotSync starting...

10:43:44 Using encoding ISO 8859-15 on the handheld.
10:43:44 [File Installer]
10:43:44 No Files to install
10:43:44 [Conduit knotes-conduit]
10:43:44 Could not retrieve list of notes from KNotes. The KNotes conduit will not be run.
10:43:44 The conduit knotes-conduit could not be executed.
10:43:44 [Conduit time_conduit]
10:43:44 Setting the clock on the handheld
10:43:44 [Conduit vcal-conduit]
10:43:44 Using non-local time zone: Europe/Copenhagen
10:43:44 Syncing with file "/home/sporring/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics"
10:43:44 Copying records to PC ...
10:43:44 Copying records to Pilot ...

[Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2007-08-21 22:47:27 UTC]

have you tried bugs.kde.org?  Maybe it's a regression in the code?

[Comment 3 Peter J. de Vrijer 2007-09-17 07:22:18 UTC]

I had exactly the same problem with my Palm Zire 22.
I have it working again by unmasking hardmasked packages
pilot-link 0.12.2 and kpilot 3.5.7. So that problem is solved
in the newer versions.

Downside is having unstable versions on my computer. I now HAVE 
to start hot-sync on my Zire 22 BEFORE starting starting kpilot.
Not doing so results in crashing of kpilot-daemon. I have to kill the daemon to be able to restart kpilot. 
Whereas in the stable version of kpilot (3.5.5) a reset of the communication would do.

[Comment 4 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) 2007-09-22 13:03:16 UTC]

This should be fixed by the newer versions I've introduced to the tree. As we now have different issues in this bug, please open a new bug if you have further issues.