Can't read Pilot device in FC4

rwillard · 11-28-2005, 10:31 AM

I have recently moved from FC3 to FC4. I did a clean install to fix all the 'experimenting' I had been doing in FC3.

In trying to get my Palm device working, I can get as far as setting the port (yes, I changed access on ttyS0). When I try to read the ID from my Palm, the sync appears to work on my handheld, but the gpilot config screen just sits there waiting forever.

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks!
Rob

fouldsy · 11-29-2005, 05:13 AM

What Palm are you running and was it working correctly under FC3? What is /var/log/messages showing when the device is plugged in and turned on, and then when you try to sync it?

rwillard · 11-29-2005, 01:11 PM

It is a Kyocera 7135, and it worked great under FC3.

/var/log/messages doesn't show anything regarding device when I attempt a sync:

Code:

<snip>
Nov 29 09:56:38 localhost hal.hotplug[5185]: DEVPATH is not set (subsystem input)
Nov 29 10:01:02 localhost crond(pam_unix)[5289]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 29 10:01:02 localhost crond(pam_unix)[5289]: session closed for user root
Nov 29 10:39:37 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Nov 29 10:39:37 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Nov 29 10:39:38 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.103 -- renewal in 35975 seconds.
Nov 29 11:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[5872]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 29 11:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[5872]: session closed for user root
Nov 29 12:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6406]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 29 12:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6406]: session closed for user root
Nov 29 12:06:10 localhost su(pam_unix)[6492]: session opened for user root by (uid=500)

rwillard · 12-02-2005, 10:06 AM

Okay.. more googling and I think I may have figured out what's happening, but I'm not sure how to fix it easily...

I have found that I have 2 versions of pilot-link installed on my system:

Code:

Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
pilot-link.i386                          1:0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4. installed
pilot-link.i386                          1:0.12.0-0.pre2.0      installed
pilot-link-devel.i386                    1:0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4. installed
Available Packages
pilot-link-debuginfo.i386                1:0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4. updates-released[root@localhost ~]#

So i'm figuring that they are conflicting with each other... of course I may be wrong.

I want to remove just one of these, but when I try, YUM (or Yum Extender) wants to remove Evlolution, and a bunch of other things.

Code:

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
 pilot-link              i386       1:0.12.0-0.pre2.0  installed         1.2 M
 pilot-link              i386       1:0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2  installed         1.3 M
Removing for dependencies:
 evolution               i386       2.2.3-2.fc4      installed          24 M
 gnome-pilot             i386       2.0.13-2         installed         1.7 M
 gnome-pilot-devel       i386       2.0.13-2         installed         405 k
 kdeaddons               i386       3.4.0-2          installed         8.6 M
 kdepim                  i386       6:3.4.0-4        installed          41 M
 pilot-link-devel        i386       1:0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2  installed         479 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       8 Package(s)
Total download size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]: n

How can I remove just the older (1:0.12.0-0.pre2.0) version and leave the newer?

Thanks!
Rob