[Xastir] Now I've done it.

[Matt Werner]

I am using three port types.

Serial TNC (not KISS)
Serial TNC (KISS)
Internet (such as fourth.aprs.net).

73 - Matt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Matt Werner" <kb0kqa at arrl.net>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Now I've done it.


> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Matt Werner wrote:
>
> > interface.c:channel_data(4):Trying to unlock a resource that a different
> > thread locked originally 98310:262152
> > Caught Segfault! Xastir will terminate
> > Last incoming line was: Port6: etc etc etc
> >
> > Then:
> > interface.c:channel_data(4):Warning:Trying to unloack a resource that
hasn't
> > been locked:0
> > interface.c:channel_data(4):Trying to unlock a resource that a different
> > thread locked originally 0:98310
> > Caught Segfault! Xastir will terminate
> > Last incoming line was: Port6: etc etc etc
> >
> > There is nothing special about the data that was coming in.  Last time
it
> > caught it on port4, which is the AX.25 interface.  The line it displayed
> > then was a command that was being echoed (like "AUTOLF was off" or
something
> > like that).
> >
> > Xastir never does terminate - it just hangs.  I have to do a kill -9 on
the
> > pid to get rid of it.
>
> The above can happen if code in interface.c performed a mutex lock
> and then forget to unlock it or perhaps vice-versa..  The
> lock's/unlock's have to come in pairs.
>
> Perhaps some of the recent changes ended up putting a return without
> an unlock or otherwise messed up the sequence.  I'll try to look at
> that.  Any idea what sorts of ports you were using?  You mentioned
> AX.25 in your last message.  Any other types?
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U     archer at eskimo dot com
> Arlington, WA, USA http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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