[Xastir] CVS update "broke" my Serial Port..

[Richard Garcia]

I thought that myself but I scrolled back and saw that I did do the
chmod 4555 and entered it correctly. I do the chmod every time but I do
not make use of the AX.25 networking anyway, I just do it in case I ever
decide to in the future so I don't pull my hair out wondering why it
will not work!

Changes ?? Well maybe but Xastir was doing fine before the CVS update, I
just closed it and then updated just after I closed. I had not made any
changes in that 3-4 second time period to my system. Now if a change
after my CVS update 1 month ago and this CVS update now did not affect
anything till' the latest update that I could see.

Either way.. it got fixed in a moment, just a heads up in case it
happens to anyone else.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:23, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2003, Richard Garcia wrote:
> 
> > I just did a CVS update and it acted quite differently than previous
> > times. I don't know if this is normal or not but just a heads up if
> > not...
> >
> > Xastir was working fine, I exited did a CVS update and all went well
> > till' I started it up again. Seems that /ttyS0 did not "like" the
> > update, it would go to a hard fail as soon as the screen came up. The
> > failure was happening way too fast so I thought it was a permission
> > problem. I made sure I was added to the UUCP group and then I had to
> > restart Xastir for the port to come up. That did fix the problem and
> > only took a few seconds since my guess was right but again I never had
> > to do that in the past after an update.
> 
> There have been no changed w.r.t. serial ports or permissions
> lately.
> 
> It's possible that you forgot to do the "chmod 4555
> /usr/local/bin/xastir" portion after you did the "make install" or
> "make install-strip" as root.
> 
> It's also possible that you might have done some system
> changes/updates that caused permissions or other things to change.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm having a similar problem on one setup,
> where I messed around with PCMCIA, hotplugging, and network settings
> recently.  My /dev/ttyS1 port wasn't working right today, or else
> the GPS I had hooked on there is now non-functional.  Still
> investigating as to why.  On that system, I haven't done a cvs
> update in about two weeks.