please see attachment for bug report
Created attachment 126708 [details] bug report
This one is almost certainly down to one (or both) of 2 things:- 1. udev is incorrectly configured 2. Bug #186779 The udev problem can be fixed by changing the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules to KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", SYMLINK+="pilot" KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]", SYSFS{product}=="palmOne Handheld*", SYMLINK+="pilot" or, probably much easier, set the sync device in gnome-pilot to be /dev/ttyUSB1 You do need to be running the FC5 release kernel or later for this to work - earlier kernels appeared to have another bug affecting this. A further look at the attachment (why is it binary?) shows that the problem is the one from Bug #186779
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186779 ***