[jp] sync difficulty

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  • Dr. Scott S. Jones scott at fyrenice.com
    Mon Jun 12 16:42:34 EDT 2006

     

    David: 
    
     
    >  	Generally, yes. Or you could use denatured alcohol and a swab. 
    > Just make sure they're clean and dry before you cradle it. You don't 
    > want to short those pins there.
     
    The contacts cleaned well with the eraser. 
    
    > > Also, if I try to sync, the process repeatedly fails at a few 
    > > specific *.prc files.
    > 
    >  	Which .prc files?
    
    Now I can't find the files in question. I'll watch for them at the next
    attempted sync. 
    
    >  	Setting the proper udev rule will fix this. You don't want the 
    > device to remain around anyway, since you can't communicate across it 
    > when its not in use.
     
    >  	Are you running one of the other conflicting daemons? 
    
    I have checked with ps ax | grep gpilotd / kpilotd, and find none of those
    are running. 
    
    >  	If either of these are running, it may cause problems. They 
    > are both unrelated to J-Pilot. Perhaps J-Pilot should check for these 
    > two daemons running in memory when it launches, and warn the user to 
    > kill them off if they wish to sync with J-Pilot.
     
    >  	The udev rule you want should look like the following, all on 
    > one line in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-Palm.rules (you will have to create 
    > this file manually):
    > 
    > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", 
    > NAME=="ttyUSB%n", SYMLINK=="pilot", GROUP=="tty", MODE=="0666"
    > 
    I have created 10-Palm.rules as directed. Should I attempt another sync with
    pilot-xfer? I'll give it a go and see what happens. 
    
    Scott
    
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