[Xastir] Xastir on Mepis - ttyS0 hard fail

[Gale Wilkinson]

Yes, it is "S" as that is the first thing I checked, as I have done that
once or twice (or so) in the past.  I just started Xastir from a
terminal window and did see that it gives me the following note during
the startup process:

found an existing lock file /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 for this port!
Lock is stale! Removing it!

Note: I only get that error message when logged and starting Xastir as a
"normal" user.  Do not get the error message when logged in as root! 
Though in both cases do get the hard fail error in Xastir itself.

   Gale

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 10:28, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> Gale Wilkinson wrote:
> > I have installed Xastir 1.3 on Mepis and have only one problem.  When I
> > try to start a serial-tnc interface on ttyS0 I am getting a Hard Fail
> > error.  I have done the usual things - did the chmod 4555 on
> > /usr/local/bin/xastir, verified that the ttys*'s are all in the root
> > owwner/group, etc.  However, even running as root I still get the same
> > error.  I suspect that it is something with the Mepis config as I am
> > running the same version of Xastir on my other box under RH 9 and it is
> > working fine after  going through the same setup process.  Any idea's?
> 
> Are you calling it /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttys0 ? Note that usually the "S" is 
> capital in the device name for the serial port.