Re: More info: Re: help... can't restore from backups

[David Ras <davras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you will need to manually change permissions on the serial port as root to:

yamaha:/export/home/% ls -l /devices/sbus@1f,0/zs@f,1100000:b
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty       29,  1 Feb 16 21:29 
/devices/sbus@1f,0/zs@f,1100000:b

normally they are set to rw for root only...

admintool will set the permissions back anytime it modifys the serial port.

yup, it did it to me too...

-dr

>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:25:40 -0500
>From: Adam Lazur <ajl4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: Alan Shutko <ats@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: More info: Re: help... can't restore from backups
>Mail-Followup-To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alan Shutko <ats@xxxxxxx>
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>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
>
>-- 
>   Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University
>              icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajl4
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