[Xastir] Xastir falling asleep?

[Dennis Hudson]

I noticed something that might or might not be related.

I've been running CVS all along so it has happened on a number of 
versions. Under Apple OS X 10.2.6 and Apple X11B3 - XFree86 4.2.1. The 
machine is a G3 Powerbook 400/512m. If I put the machine is sleep (ie 
force it by closing the lid) the machine wakes up xastir it will 
sometimes not display stations anymore. Clearing all stations, messages 
etc will not fix it. It must be restarted. I am only connected to and 
aprsd machine.

It's not high on my list of thing that I care about though. Basically I 
come home from work and fire up the laptop until I either fall asleep 
or close the lid. I have been doing this without rebooting for many 
weeks at a time. (Apple updates often complain that they need to reboot 
when it really never touched the Kernal, just the GUI or one of the 
services. If an update breaks the GUI I usually try some crazy heroics 
and try to restart everything from the CLI.


Dennis, N2LBT


On Monday, Jul 7, 2003, at 13:21 US/Eastern, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:
>
>> I have xastir loaded through a telnet session and displayed on a 
>> cygwin
>> x-server on an old Pentium-100 computer.  The slow computer can't 
>> handle
>> the load of being connected to an internet server very well but allows
>> xastir to always be on screen and "out of my way" this way.
>>
>> After an undetermined amount of time Xastir seems to go to sleep.  It 
>> still
>> displays the map screen etc but doesn't do anything until it receives 
>> a
>> mouse/keyboard command.  It is connected to an internet server and an 
>> AGWPE
>> port full time but after so long it doesn't decode incoming packets 
>> nor
>> does it send any packets until I give it some sort of input such as 
>> click
>> on a menu etc.
>
> What type of operating system is Xastir running on?
>
> Are either of the two boxes a laptop?
>
> Do you have APM running in the BIOS or the OS of either box?
>
> Do the internet server connections and/or the AGWPE socket
> connection time-out?
>
> I've noticed that if I start Xastir up on a Linux laptop I have, and
> don't give it any packets to digest, that I get similar operation to
> what you describe.  I don't get any updates to the maps and such
> until I move the mouse pointer or strike a key.  As long as I have
> packets coming in, or GPS strings to digest, it's fine.
>
> -- 
> Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
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