On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 04:18, Mats Lidell wrote: > Hi, > > After updating to RH8.0 I tried to sync again. (I had problems earlier > with that.) So this report is about Evolution 1.0.8. > > * Problem 1 > > By a coincident I started the gpilotd-control-applet in a shell so I > could se the verbose output from the sync process. That was very > valuable. As it happened I got an error reading something like "can't > allocate -2 bytes" (That seems hard to do so no wonder it couldn't > continue ;-) ) > > Anyway that lead me to delete the address item that was causing the > problem and then the sync worked. > > Conclusion: There can be records in the PDA that makes the sync to > crash.
The above error indicates a probable idl mismatch. The rh 8.0 pilot packager has indicated to me there are some issues with the redhat gnome-pilot packages. > * Problem 2 > > I have a confession. I'm quite fond of using jpilot so I was > experimenting with syncing with both application. Both applications > needs to do a slow sync when I change application to sync with. > > This makes you notice that syncing with Evolution is much, much slower > than with jpilot. Maybe because of the debug printouts!? (I have tried > though without running in a shell too and the speed is as poor.) In my > case, since I have a lot of records in the PDA, it takes hours to do > the sync after a switch. This makes the scheme of using the two apps > together rather impractical. > > Conclusion: Evolution full sync must be faster!? Hours? How many records are we talking here? JPilot also syncs in a different manner, storing the records in the palm database format iirc. > But that isn't enough. After jpilot has synced Evolution thinks all > date book records and to do records in the PDA are new so you'll get > another copy of them. > > Conclusion: Evolution has problems with identifying what records are > new during a full sync. (Could of course be caused by jpilots sync > doing something bad. I haven't seen the same problems with the desktop > app from Palm before though but I haven't tested this recently with > this setup.) If jpilot touches any of the info in the record then this will occur as per the palm sync rules. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ximian, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
