'Not responding' on Ubuntu 24.04.3 when syncing
Anyone running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS seeing any issues around sync with jpilot 2.0.2? I am getting occasional 'not responding' errors with the usual options of 'wait' or 'force quit' - waiting is unsuccessful, so force quit is the only option.
I'm on a ten year old Macbook Air, specs available and all the usual lsusb stuff etc can be dumped out if that would be useful.
I'm using jpilot to sync a Palm IIIex via the serial cradle as per usual, using a USB/Serial adapter, a 'Bus 001 Device 007: ID 067b:23a3 Prolific Technology, Inc.ATEN Serial Bridge' according to lsusb. My jpilot settings are to sync on /dev/ttyUSB0 at 115200 serial rate, which works fine almost all of the time. I'm in the dialout group so again, no issues there.
Not yet identified anything that I can replicate definitively as being a surefire cause, but one thing that seems to cause grief (and I suspect this may be me doing this backwards) is if I initiate a sync from the cradle, then hit ctrl-Y in jpilot. This is not the only thing that causes the not responding issue, but it certainly seems to be a method I should avoid (as in it's user error).
FWIW, even if I do force quit, there doesn't appear to be any harm done, because the issue happens post-sync.
Obviously, this could be hardware and/or machine-specific and I haven't tried it on another machine just yet; just throwing this out there in case it's something that has been seen elsewhere that might steer me in the right direction.
Thanks
Hello:
On 14 Sep 2025 at 10:19, Tony Dunn via Jpilot wrote:
When I sync (Devuan Daedalus / J-Pilot 1.8.2) I first click on the desktop UI icon and only
then on the HotSync icon in my own Palm IIIxe screen.
I seem to recall that doing it differently caused some sort of problem (similar?) to the one
you are experiencng now.
I believe that it (most probably) the problem with your sync'ing
That said:
I have a distinct dislike for HTML mail (always have) and receive the jpilot@lists.jpilot.org
emails with other user's posts on a POP3/SMTP client (30+ years using Pegasus Mail).
They are becoming increasingly difficult to read due to HTML formatting.
I would appreciate it if you (and others) configure your [fill in whatever you use] email client
to keep a max line length of 70-74 characters.
TIA.
JHM
Hello
Thanks for your thoughts - if nothing else it seems to indicate that the order in which the sync is triggered can have a negative effect.
As for the format of emails, my initial post was using the Empathy site, and I have no control over the formatting or line length that the site uses when sending email to the list.
I do however have some degree of control when using my personal email account at protonmail (a web interface rather than a 'pure' client) insofar as I can opt for a plain text format when sending, which I have done for this message. Hope it improves your reading experience (I am no fan of HTML mail either, but these days it seems de facto).
Regards
Tony
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On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 13:04, Julius Henry Marx via Jpilot jpilot@lists.jpilot.org wrote:
Hello:
On 14 Sep 2025 at 10:19, Tony Dunn via Jpilot wrote:
When I sync (Devuan Daedalus / J-Pilot 1.8.2) I first click on the desktop UI icon and only
then on the HotSync icon in my own Palm IIIxe screen.
I seem to recall that doing it differently caused some sort of problem (similar?) to the one
you are experiencng now.
I believe that it (most probably) the problem with your sync'ing
That said:
I have a distinct dislike for HTML mail (always have) and receive the jpilot@lists.jpilot.org
emails with other user's posts on a POP3/SMTP client (30+ years using Pegasus Mail).
They are becoming increasingly difficult to read due to HTML formatting.
I would appreciate it if you (and others) configure your [fill in whatever you use] email client
to keep a max line length of 70-74 characters.
TIA.
JHM
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