On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:00 -0700, Marc D. Field wrote:

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting my Palm to sync with jpilot on my Centos system via USB. When I sync, I get this error in jpilot:

pi_accept Illegal seek Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_ACCEPT Finished

I have jpilot syncing fine with this Palm over the network, BTW. For USB, I set things up for udev as described on various websites.

That may be the problem. My palm sync works fine as a user without any mods to udev, as long as I initiate the sync on the palm and then click the Sync button in jpilot within a few seconds. I am in the uucp group. My "serial port" is /dev/ttyUSB1 in jpilot/preferences/settings.

Here are the relevant ports & symlink (created and deleted automatically with each sync attempt):

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw------- 1 marc uucp 188, 1 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/ttyUSB1

Here are my ports:

[prs@wx1 ~]$ ll /dev/ttyU* /dev/pilot ls: /dev/pilot: No such file or directory crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Oct 20 10:21 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 1 Oct 20 10:21 /dev/ttyUSB1

I added myself to the uucp group. It doesn't look like this is a permissions issue, does it?

Possibly.

(I saw a message in the list's archives indicating that one must start jpilot as root in order to sync, but this doesn't make sense to me.)

No need to be root as long as you are in the uucp group.

Any ideas as to what's going wrong? Are others syncing Palm devices to their Centos boxes via USB (and from normal user accounts)?

I have tried other things, such as using a different USB port on the PC, and having jpilot sync to /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 instead of the /dev/pilot symlink. I've also searched the jpilot mailing list archives, and the web in general, and still no solution. I'm running an up to date Centos 4 system, pilot-link-0.11.8-8, and self-compiled jpilot 0.99.9.

My (self-compiled) versions:

jpilot-0.99.8-7.1 pilot-link-0.11.8-16

I see rawhide (my SRPM source) is still at

jpilot-0.99.8-7.1.src.rpm pilot-link-0.11.8-16.src.rpm

And EL5 beta is using jpilot-0.99.8-7.1 pilot-link-0.11.8-16

Perhaps 0.99.9 is too far ahead of the curve, or it is a permissions problem.

Good luck, Phil