GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 161798
Pilot crashed
Last modified: 2006-08-08 18:28:56 UTC
Distribution: Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Package: gnome-pilot Severity: major Version: GNOME2.8.0 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc Synopsis: Pilot crashed Bugzilla-Product: gnome-pilot Bugzilla-Component: applet Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.8.0) Description: Description of the crash: Crashed while attempting a synchronization Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. Press the pilot sync button, crash 2. 3. Expected Results: Update Evolution data to the Pilot How often does this happen? Just this once. Additional Information: This program is frustrating because there is no way to get information on why things are not working or the status of the serial port. A small effort in providing debug feedback (if desired) would solve a lot of problems. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-12-20 11:13 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-pilot". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Thanks for the bug report. Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused the crash. Could you provide one? Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/getting-traces.cgi for more information about getting a useful stack trace.
Created attachment 35086 [details] gdb output of gpilod after crash Pushed the sync button on my Palm. Pilot Synchronizing EAddress window starts. gpilotd crashes, before answering, I fire up debugger and produce the following output. Always repeatable.
I'm running FC3 with released updates applied. No other important software.
I am using evolution-2.0.2-3 on Fedora FC3. It automatically upgraded my Evolution 1.4 data, which synced fine with my Palm. Since the upgrade, I have been unable to sync. I am using gnome-pilot-2.0.12-4 I am willing and able to provide more detailed bugging info to get a solution to this problem.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This bug report isn't very useful because it doesn't describe the bug well. If you have time and can still reproduce the bug, please read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug-HOWTO.html and add a more useful description to this bug.
Gee, it is now 6 months. At the time, I would have done anything to get the Palm sync to work, and as I noted, the program was very frustrating because it gave almost no feedback and didn't even report obvious problems like permissions errors -- it simply goes dead silently. Anyway, I gave up long ago, switched to kpilot, which works like a charm *every* single time, and gives plenty of feedback. From my stand point, you can close this bug. Good luck.
Subodh: Um, that stock response really isn't applicable/useful here. The reporter provided as much information as they were able and pointed out that they were willing to get more if provided directions on how to get it--and even expressed frustration at the lack of status/debugging information provided from the program. If extra information is needed, the bugsquad or maintainers should point out what information is needed.
The comment #7 from Elijah Newren is one of the best analysis(es?) that I have read in a long time :-)
Marking as fixed. I believe this was an issue on the Evolution side, in which incomplete charset support could cause crashes when certain non-ascii chars were encountered.