Re: [Barry-devel] issue with barry and pearl and developement of cmmand line backup tool

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 04:29:09PM -0600, Nils wrote:
> Hey everyone, I am currently running into two different issues.

Hi Nils, welcome to Barry!

(If you've been reading the list, you can see that I'm still catching up
on a mail backlog.  Apologies for the delay.)


> december 11. when i run barrybackup without sudo it gives me the
> Usb::Error caught: (-1, error sending control message: Operation not
> permitted): Probe: GetConfiguration failed
> error, and btool and others give the same.

This is a permissions problem that should be handled with the udev script,
which should be part of your binary install.  You say you're using Gentoo,
so I took a quick peek at the ebuild script.  It appears to be installing
the 10-blackberry.rules script properly, but you'll want to double check
this.

Note that different versions of udev require slightly different udev syntax,
and there are two versions of the udev rules provided in the Barry sources.
I don't know offhand which version is most appropriate for Gentoo.

Also, it may be that your account is not a part of the plugdev group.


> btool -l finds one blackberry device as
> Device ID: 0x661680. PIN: 2576c6be, Description: RIM BlackBerry Device
> 
> then i run btool -S and see Address Book among others, so i try to dump it
> and i get:
> Blackberry devices found:
> Device ID: 0x6616d0. PIN: 2576c6be, Description: RIM BlackBerry Device
> Using device (PIN): 2576c6be
> Bad packet size. Packet: 26. DataSize(): 26. Required size: 44
>     00000000: 00 00 1a 00 09 ff 00 07 52 49 4d 20 44 65 73 6b  ........RIM
> Desk
>     00000010: 74 6f 70 00 00 00 00 00 02 00                    top.......
> 
> Barry::Error caught: Bad packet size. Packet: 26. DataSize(): 26. Required
> size: 44

This should only happen if btool or one of the applications doesn't exit
properly.  The only solution for it so far is to replug the device, or
try the 'breset' program.


> when i run it with sudo it
> appears for aout a second and then disappears returning a memory corruption
> (see attached barrybackup file)
> 
> sometimes i also get:
> Blackberry devices found:
> Device ID: 0x6616d0. PIN: 2576c6be, Description: RIM BlackBerry Device
> Using device (PIN): 2576c6be
> btool: symbol lookup error: btool: undefined symbol:
> _ZN5Barry7Contact11ParseFieldsERKNS_4DataERm

These looks like fundamental library and compile problems, and should be
sorted out before any of the others.

You're running 64bit, so perhaps there is a conflict somewhere between
32 and 64bit?  Are there any old libraries lying around that could be
interfering?

I'm a little surprised that you get the PIN information before the
undefined symbol.  I would have thought the undefined symbol would
stop btool from loading altogether.


> And as one last thing, I was interested in helping the developement,
> starting with a command line backup tool. :)

Excellent!  There are two options for you.

1) Look at the perlbarry package under contrib/ which was written by
	Ashley Willis.  There are some pretty useful tools under there,
	which could be incorporated into the main tools/ area if someone
	has time.  There's even a perl script that handles Windows backup
	files.

2) Alternatively, you could start porting the C++ code into a command line
	tool.  The code should come apart fairly easily, removing the GUI-
	specific stuff.  Ideally, if you go this route, I'd like to split
	the code so that it is possible to compile a command line version
	and the existing GUI version based on the same underlying backup
	and restore code, to prevent as much code duplication as possible.

Let me know if you have questions about the code.

- Chris