JPilot no longer connecting to Palm on port usb: under Ubuntu 11.1o

I have been the same problem!

I also have the same problem. It worked fine on 10.04 LTS, but not on 12.04. My palm is a Tungsten E2.

It is not a problem of device recognition, since the Palm shows up in the list when typing "lsusb" in a terminal, once the "HotSync" button is hit.

Since I still have a computer with 10.04, I found a workaround, but it is cumbersome: I launch jpilot and execute the sync on that 10.04 computer, then transfer the /home/user/.jpilot folder from the 10.04 computer to the 12.04 computer.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Continuation of my posting #3:
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The failure to Sync that I described in my posting #3 happenned under Xubuntu 12.04 with a Mate desktop. I tried a Sync on a computer installed with plain Ubuntu 12.04 and a Gnome 2 desktop (a.k.a. Gnome-classic -- packages gnome-core), and it worked fine !!!

This narrows the problem down to the desktop environment. I hope that Xubuntu, Mate and J-Pilot developers will work side-by-side to fix it !!

jpilot maintainer speaking,
Jpilot should not work differently with Xubuntu.

You can install the pilot-xfer package and use "pilot-xfer -l -p usb:" to check the connection between the Palm and the computer.
That is the first debug step.

I found a fix, that worked on Xubuntu and on Ubuntu 12.04. (cf. http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/jpilot?&#ca_ne_marche_pas)

Below are the steps, in French (cf. http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/jpilot?&#ca_ne_marche_pas) and in English

1°) installer les paquets syncbbdb, pilot-link, et pilot-manager
2°) vérifier que vous faisiez partie du groupe "dialout" (ou modifié ce groupe pour vous y inclure)
3°) redémarrer votre ordinateur

1°) install packages syncbbdb, pilot-link, and pilot-manager
2°) check that you belong to the group "dialout" (if not, modify that group in order to belong to it)
3°) restart your computer