From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I am trying to transfer PRCs to my Tungsten E across a USB connection. The file appears to transfer across and the "Synchronising <foo>" message appears on the Palm, but then pilot-xfer just hangs and the "Connection lost" dialog appears on the Palm. The file is not transferred. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pilot-link-0.11.8-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect Palm, press hotsync 2. enter command "pilot-xfer -i file.prc" 3. wait Actual Results: File is not transferred and connection is lost Expected Results: File is transferred to Palm Additional info:
problem also appears on FC2 on x86_64 with pilot-link-0.11.8-3.1 and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 [gsh@libra ~]$ pilot-xfer -L -p /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given. Defaulting to '/dev/pilot' Listening to port: /dev/pilot Please press the HotSync button now... Connected Reading list of databases in RAM and ROM... AGVersion AvantGo_AvGo_appl_a68k BigClock_BClk_appl_a68k HandEra BatteryGraph_BatG_appl_a68k Web History AGChanMQ AvGoConduits1 Snapper-MsgContent-Snpm BatteryGraphDB DocsToGoDB Web UserData Queries WiFiDB WiFiNetworkDB-Wpnl AddressDB DatebookDB /var/log/messages shows: Dec 28 15:34:46 libra kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:02:00.1: wakeup Dec 28 15:34:46 libra kernel: usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 Dec 28 15:34:46 libra kernel: visor 5-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Dec 28 15:34:46 libra kernel: usb 5-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Dec 28 15:34:46 libra kernel: usb 5-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Dec 28 15:34:54 libra kernel: usb 5-2: USB disconnect, address 4 Dec 28 15:34:54 libra kernel: visor 5-2:1.0: device disconnected Dec 28 15:34:54 libra kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Dec 28 15:34:54 libra kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
it seems a bug in kernel, which has been fixed in new kernel version 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 in FC3 update.