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Date:      15 Apr 2003 23:57:06 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Bob Van Valzah <Bob@vanvalzah.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gnomepilot2 gpilotd
Message-ID:  <1050465425.341.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1049867533.7413.14.camel@localhost>
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Just out of curiosity, have you tried 2.0.5 yet?  Does it work any
better?

Joe

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 01:52, Bob Van Valzah wrote:
> Joe, Thanks for your advice.
>=20
> I've gotten over the gpilotd starting problems for now.  I also managed
> to clean out the pilot state with rm -r -f ~/.gnome2/gnome-pilot.d
>=20
> Now I'm back to the same old problem (though now it's a bit more easily
> reproduced).  When the druid first starts to talk to gpilotd to receive
> the user name and ID from the Palm, gpilotd exits:
>=20
> gpilotd-Message: corba: get_pilots(...)
> gpilotd-Message: corba: get_pilots(...)
> gpilotd-Message: corba: get_pilots(...)
> gpilotd-Message: Exiting (caught SIGTERM)...
> Terminated
>=20
> The first 3 lines are apparently the once per second checking to see if
> the sync button has been pressed.  But the "caught SIGTERM" line pops
> out and gpilotd exits as soon as the druid goes to read the user name
> and ID.
>=20
> I tried running gpilotd under truss to figure out what what was causing
> the SIGTERM, but that didn't help.  (Gpilotd apparently forks or does
> all its work in a child process or thread or something that keeps the
> work it does from being trussed.)
>=20
> So I'm still stumped.  All help or debugging advice appreciated.
>=20
> 	Thanks,
> =09
> 	Bob
>=20
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:31, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:20, Bob Van Valzah wrote:
> > > Is there any trick to making gnomepilot2 work?  I just did a
> > > pkg_deinstall -f gnomepilot and then built gnomepilot2 from the
> > > port.  I can't figure out who's supposed to start gpilotd.  Any hints=
 there?
> >=20
> > It's probably supposed to start when you login to GNOME (i.e. as part o=
f
> > gnome-session's startup).
> >=20
> > > =20
> > > I did start it manually and got the druid to run, but then it exited
> > > before it could sense the user name and ID from the Palm.  I kept
> > > restarting gpilotd and pressed on with the druid and eventually got i=
t
> > > finished, but with the GCOS user name and UID instead of anything rea=
d
> > > from the Palm.  I don't want to clobber what I have in there so I
> > > deleted that Palm but am unable to add a new one.  Every time I hit
> > > "Get from pilot" in the applet, it just times out.  I'm stuck.
> > >=20
> > > Is there any way I can nuke the half-baked Pilot config I have now an=
d
> > > start over?  All advice appreciated.
> >=20
> > I believe it's all stored in gconf.  You should be able to go throw
> > ~/.gconf, and find the gpilot prefs, and remove them.
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > 	Thanks,
> > >=20
> > > 	Bob
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