Re: SynCE intallation from scratch, first error

[Mark E. <ma...@mp...>]

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 19:12 +0200, Jan Moritz Meyer wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.05.2008, 16:47 +0100 schrieb Mark Ellis: 
> > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 19:38 +0200, Jan Moritz Meyer wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 23.05.2008, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Mark Ellis:
> > > > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:15 +0200, Jan Moritz Meyer wrote:
> > > > > Greeting Everyone,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am stuck with some errors i encountered setting up SynCE, following
> > > > > the guides on www.synce.org.
> > > > > Some problems may be related to incompatible packageges from diffrent
> > > > > releases.
> > > > > This is why I want to start the SynCE installation from scratch(only
> > > > > using files from one release this time), before i start asking any
> > > > > questions about specifc problems. 
> > > > > To get a plain system...
> > > > > ...which packages schuould I uninstall ?
> > > > > ...which folders should I delete ?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Did you ever install from source ? If you did it's a bit more
> > > > complicated, but if you only used packages you can't go far wrong by
> > > > removing :-
> > > > 
> > > > anything with synce in the name
> > > > anything with rapi2 in the name
> > > > anything with librra, and python-rra
> > > > any of dccm, synce-dccm, vdccm, odccm
> > > > 
> > > > Mark
> > > Thank You Mark!
> > > 
> > > I will "remove" everything you listed via yum.
> > > 
> > > I played around with some of the plugings, the msynctool just to name
> > > one.
> > > What aout the hidden folders created by the some of the apps and the
> > > config saved inside them ? 
> > > Should I delete them ? 
> > > If yes, where are they?
> > 
> > The only folder I would recommend just deleting is ~/.synce and only if
> > you really don't have any partnership information you need.
> > 
> > > Will i find every folder thats to delete by searching for files and
> > > folders named like what you listed above ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't just delete anything out of your home dir unless you installed
> > from source.
> > 
> > > Sincerely JM
> > > 
> > > P.S.I consider making a litle linux-noobs-guide for setting up SynCE
> > > when i got this running, anyone interested ?
> > > 
> I deinstalled any components of Synce as explaine above and startet to
> follow this guide: 
> 
> http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation
> 
> Instlled everything as said in:
> 
> http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Fedora
> 
> and was able to list the folders of my pda usinf "pls" as explained in 
> 
> http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Fedora
> 
> so lets say everything worked fine up to know, od could there have beem
> something going wrong unnotice so far ?
> 

That should be ok.

> I encoutered the first error trying to start the sync-engine, as
> descibed in:
> 
> http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceSetup/SyncEngine
> 
> I keep getting the following errormessage:
> 
>         SynCE sync-engine starting up
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>           File "/usr/bin/sync-engine", line 84, in <module>
>             configObj = Config.Config(progopts)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/config.py",
>         line 292, in __init__
>             oldconf = os.path.join(self.path,"config.xml")
>         AttributeError: Config instance has no attribute 'path'
> 
> I downloaded the config.xml, created /home/MyUserName/.synce and moved
> it there. 
> Problem seemed solved as the sync-engige starts up.
> 

Looks like a typo in that sync-engine version, but if config.xml exists
(since you copied it there) it won't matter.

> But wehen i try to vreate a partnership via
> 
>         $ create_partnership.py "JanM" "Contacts,Calendar,Tasks"
> 
> i get:
> 
>         ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error
>         on :1.91:/org/synce/SyncEngine: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
>         org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply.
>         Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a
>         reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the
>         reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
>         error: unable to connect to running sync-engine
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>           File "/usr/bin/create_partnership.py", line 20, in <module>
>             for id, name in itypes:
>         NameError: name 'itypes' is not defined
> 
> LG Jan M  
> 

What does the sync-engine output say ? What version of sync-engine is
it ? What version of WM is your device ? The output of pstatus will tell
us this.

Do you have a session dbus running ? (run ps ax|grep dbus)

Mark