[Xastir] Lost control of xastir

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On 7 May 2003, Rich Garcia wrote:

> This evening I moved to another section of the map and I was a goner.
> This had never happened before but xastir showed loading tiger maps at
> the bottom of the screen and it is slow so I changed my window. I came
> back about a half hour later and it still showed loading but now the
> pulldown menus were gone and the screen was a solid gray. So with great
> difficulty I got to close the application and restarted and the same
> thing happened.
> 
> The terminal screen shows very little other than the missing fonts and
> something about festival. Using RH9 and xastir114-2003-Mar-14.tgz, here
> is some info. Any idea how to get out of this "loop" ?

Kill Xastir using "ps" commands and "kill" if necessary.


	cd ~/.xastir/config
	rm selected_maps.sys
	cd
	xastir &


selected_maps.sys is the file that contains the list of maps you
selected.  Each time you restart Xastir, it tries to load them.

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