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More info: Re: help... can't restore from backups
Alan Shutko (ats@xxxxxxx) said:
> >>>>> "A" == Adam Lazur <ajl4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> A> Synchronization cancelled on Pilot
>
> I've had this happen. The best suggestion I have is to just keep
> hitting the pilotmgr sync button... eventually, it should clear out
> whatever's confusing it and block waiting for the pilot to go into
> hotsync.
>
> That's how it worked with me, at any rate.
I tried doing that about 100 times, no go. I've also hard reset the
pilot 3 or 4 times and repeated the pilotmgr sync attack with no
success. I'm tempted to think it's a hardware problem on the pilot,
but 'pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyS3 -l' outputs a curious message:
Unable to bind to port '/dev/ttyS3'.
(Please see 'man pilot-xfer' or 'pilot-xfer --help' for information on setting the port).
This message gets spit out when I'm a normal user or when run as
root. Anybody know what it means? 'pilot-xfer --help' doesn't mention
error messages. I don't believe it's the port hardware or the setup as
I've had a serial mouse working with gpm as a test.
The perms on the relevant /dev files are:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root pilot 5 Jan 15 04:00 /dev/pilot -> ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 root pilot 4, 67 Jul 20 1998 /dev/ttyS3
my normal user account is a member of group pilot as well.
This is driving me nuts, it all worked a month or so ago. I've left
the batteries out of my pilot overnight and will try again tomorrow,
if not, it's time to install M$ Windows and attempt a sync then. If
anybody has any suggestions or help I'd much appreciate it as
installing Windows just to sync my pilot makes my computer unhappy.
.adam
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Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University
icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajl4
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