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> References: <200304082120.h38LKT8O081244@Relent.VanValzah.Com> <1049837479.360.59.camel@gyros> <1049867533.7413.14.camel@localhost>
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--=-ZN1HRBwCIu0A2K82RMJO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-ZN1HRBwCIu0A2K82RMJO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+nNSRb2iPiv4Uz4cRAue7AKCbqaJzLyW2vWkiCvqMB3+GyS78wgCfUAe9 WSR8x0ANCEN5kAChOzPVCf8= =/f0v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ZN1HRBwCIu0A2K82RMJO--
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