[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#474923: Bug#474923: hal: palm treo 680 is disconneted when sincronize button is pressed

[don Paolo Benvenuto]

Il giorno mar, 08/04/2008 alle 00.23 +0200, Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> don Paolo Benvenuto schrieb:
> > Package: hal
> > Version: 0.5.11~rc2-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: causes non-serious data loss
> > 
> > About 3 weeks ago I could sincronize my palm treo 680 for the last time.
> > 
> > After that, every time I connect my palm to the usb cable, a new usb device is created (ok), and the gnome-pilot preferences are presented.
> > 
> > But the same happens when I press the syncronize button too: that moment with tail -f /var/log/syslog I can see:
> > 
> > Apr  7 23:20:35 xserin kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 3
> > Apr  7 23:20:36 xserin kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
> > Apr  7 23:20:36 xserin kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > 
> > and the gnome-pilot preferences are presented, instead of beginning the syncronization.
> > 
> > I consider it's a serious bug, because it doesn't permit a vital operation like syncronize a smartphone. 
> 
> Why is that a problem of hal and where is the data loss you mentioned?
> Filing grave bugs "just so" is not that nice.

I'm not shure it's a hal problem, but I'm sure it causes serious datas
losses because a not syncronized handheld device is a serious danger of
data loss, and actually I had a data loss because of this bug.



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