Bug 141491 – app-pda/synce-librapi2-0.9.2 doesn't work with Yakumo Alpha-X GPS

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2006-07-23 06:52:30 UTC]

I discovered that synce packages (the ~x86 ones) works partially for me when I tried to communicate with my Yakumo Alpha-X GPS. The only thing working is the PPP connection, which I was able to start by running:
  vdccm (as user)
  synce-serial-start (as root)

The following command output shows that librapi2 library is the failing component:
   mrness@alin ~/.synce $ pstatus -d 3
   [rapi_context_connect:161] failed to connect to proxy for 192.168.0.2
pstatus: Unable to initialize RAPI: An unspecified failure has occurred

I was able to make it work by altering synce-librapi2 with the following patch:
--- librapi-0.9.2.orig/src/support/rapi_context.c       2006-07-23 11:37:08.355776000 +0300
+++ librapi-0.9.2/src/support/rapi_context.c    2006-07-23 11:36:36.689797000 +0300
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
                goto fail;
        }

-    if (info->os_version < 5) {
+    if (true /*info->os_version < 5*/) {
         if ( !synce_socket_connect(context->socket, info->ip, RAPI_PORT) )
         {
             synce_error("failed to connect to %s", info->ip);


I didn't attached the patch because it isn't really a solution, but a workaround. Here you have my ~/.synce/active_connection file:
mrness@alin ~/.synce $ cat active_connection
  [device]
  os_version=5380
  build_number=1088
  processor_type=2577
  partner_id_1=1338929223
  partner_id_2=1664431742
  name=pocket_pc
  class=PocketPC
  hardware=YAKUMO alphaX GPS
  ip=192.168.0.2
  port=1029

... and here is my partial pstatus output (when librapi2 patch has been applied):
  mrness@alin ~/.synce $ pstatus
  Version
  =======
  Version:    4.21.1088 (Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC Phone Edition)
  Platform:   3 (Windows CE)
  Details:    ""
 
  System
  ======
  Processor architecture: 5 (ARM)
  Processor type:         2577 (StrongARM)
  Page size:              0x10000

The reported OS is strange. According to my PDA, the OS is Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2006-07-23 14:13:19 UTC]

i'll try and get some upstream people to look at this. there seems to be some important debugging information that will be useful to them.

meanwhile, have you tried 0.9.1?

[Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 00:18:41 UTC]

Emerging =app-pda/synce-librapi2-0.9.1 also do the trick.
This version doesn't use synce_socket_connect_proxy(), therefore it works for me.

[Comment 3 Angel Olivera 2006-07-29 12:44:57 UTC]

Works for a DELL Axim X3 (WM2003) with =app-pda/synce-librapi2-0.9.1, but not with 0.9.2.

[Comment 4 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2006-07-29 15:38:21 UTC]

i've masked 0.9.2 until this issue gets resolved. thanks all for reporting.

[Comment 5 Sergio CERLESI 2006-08-03 02:28:58 UTC]

Created attachment 93321 [details]
synce-dccm-0.9.1-r1.ebuild

New ebuild that applied the synce-dccm-0.9.1-os-version.patch

[Comment 6 Sergio CERLESI 2006-08-03 02:29:48 UTC]

Created attachment 93322 [details, diff]
synce-dccm-0.9.1-os-version.patch

[Comment 7 Sergio CERLESI 2006-08-03 02:38:07 UTC]

I had the same problem on my system.

The problem seems to be the "dccm" that create the file active_connection with a wrong os_version, the patch that I attaced fix the issue on my system.

[Comment 8 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2006-09-07 00:24:54 UTC]

Hmm... I think your patch doesn't do what it should. 
What if version is "5.1"?

[Comment 9 Iain Buchanan 2009-08-05 12:13:00 UTC]

Please try a recent version of SynCE.  mescalinum: close?

[Comment 10 Federico Ferri (RETIRED) 2009-08-05 14:02:11 UTC]

0.9.2 packages are gone