I just did a clean upgrade to mandrake 10.1 and it seems that the addressbook and calendar conduits in gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.11 are missing? When I was running MDK 10, I could sync my contacts and calendar and a few other things. Why are these conduits missing in 10.1?

That is strange. However, I just searched "available software" on my 10.1 system, and find that this package IS available on the distro CD's. So apparently I could install it if I missed it. (I don't use Gnome desktop, though; I use jpilot and the pilot-link software instead.)

See if you can get the missing conduits package off your CD's.

I did what you did but under gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.11-1 this is wha it says:

This is a collection of additional conduits for gnome-pilot, it currently features
- MAL conduit
- email conduit
- expense conduit
- memo file conduit
- time conduit

Does that mean by saying that it's an "additional" collection that the package gnome-pilot-2.0.11-4 already has conduits and it's just my installation that is messed up?

It sure does sound that way. Hmm. I don't see how it could hurt anything to go ahead and install this, and see (1) if additional packages show up as required in the process; (2) if, assuming the installation succeeds, it solves your problem. You can always uninstall it again if you don't get what you want.

Wish I knew more, but that's the best I can do at present, not using the Gnome desktop myself.

Any other Gnome people have ideas or experience with this?

OK, I have an update. When I upgraded from MDK 10, I first installed FC3 and then decided that it sucked, so I wiped the root partition without getting rid of my /home partition. I did this because I didn't want my user settings messed up. When I was syncing in FC3, everything worked fine. Now that I am in MDK 10.1, the syncing is messed up. Somehow I was able to get my addresses and calendar to sync but there are three notifications that pop-uo and say "unknown conduit" without telling me what the unknown is. I am assuming that a few setting left over from FC3 are interferring in the syncing process and this is why I am getting those three annoying pop-ups. Is there a log somewhere or something I can delete to make it stop popping up and giving me errors?

I'll watch this thread but afraid I have no more suggestions. Sorry.

Meanwhile, investigating this (or trying to), I found out my own installation is no longer sync'ing the time on the handheld! It did it under 9.2, but now it doesn't. The plugin for doing it is there. I copied over the plugin from my 9.2 installation (which I preserved) and it still doesn't sync the time.

Wonder if it's a kernel thing.

BINGO!!

OK, the problem was that I didn't have the evolution-pilot package installed. The default evolution package that came with MDK 10.1 is 2.0.0 and the only evolution-pilot package I could find was 2.0.1. So what I did was just forced the evolution-pilot installation and now everything works smoothly. Those pop-ups are gone now.

Good! Now just fix my time-sync problem for me, and we'll have our Palm problems solved.

Which version of Palm OS are you using? I read some where that some previous versions (possibly 3 and below) can't be time synced.

It's version 3.5-something, pretty new--I just bought the Tungsten E in July I think.

It was syncing time just fine under 9.2. I can still sync the time using "pilot-xfer -t" in a console, but it was nicer when I didn't have to do anything. Not that I'm lazy, understand...!

That's what I have and the time sync works well for me. Are you using evolution or gpilotd?

Neither, just Jpilot with the pilot-link package which it requires.

"Sync time" used to show up as a choice under the Jpilot preferences (conduits), too, but it doesn't now.

The plugin's where it's supposed to be. I figured it was something about 10.1 or the newer kernel that was causing the problem. I dunno...

I'm not using jpilot. Try the gnome-pilot packages and then put the applet on the panel and then you can sync anytime you want. That's what works for me.

Hmm. I installed them, but can't find what I need to do to get anything to run. If it requires using Gnome Desktop, forget it--I just don't care for desktop environments.

Jpilot is OK, just wish the one feature were not broken now.

UPDATE: I fixed this problem. Why the plugin was not working I don't know. But I decided to work on the problem again today and I found the directory ~/.pilot/plugins EMPTY. Hmm.

I then created a symbolic link like this in ~/.pilot/plugins ---

ln -s /usr/lib/jpilot/plugins/libsynctime.so.0 libsynctime.so

--and reopened JPilot and it synced the time just like it used to (and was supposed to).

Beats me. Anyway, it fixed it.