[Xastir] Interface glitch

[John Ronan]

Come to think of it.. that happened me as well.

John

On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote:

> I had similar problems earlier, too.  I would add an interface and  
> then
> the interface box would show up with no buttons.  If I closed the
> interface box and open it right back up it would all come back with no
> problems and the new interface would be in the window.  It was a small
> annoyance and didn't really break anything.
>
> 73s,
> Eric KF4OTN
>
>
>
> Darryl Gibson wrote:
>> I got my antenna back up, interfaced the radio to the tnc, and my  
>> aprs
>> station is back on the air! But I encountered some weirdness along  
>> the way.
>>
>> I selected interface/add/serial-tnc, set my parameters, clicked  
>> add and
>> the interface box reappeared, with no buttons. So I closed it with  
>> "x",
>> reopened interface, and there was my selection on the list, I
>> highlighted it, clicked on start, and nothing happened, but the  
>> buttons
>> disappeared again. After waiting a couple of minutes, I tried to  
>> close
>> it with "x" and it didn't respond. And the Xastir window wouldn't
>> respond either. So I killed Xastir from the cli with CTR-Z.
>>
>> I restarted Xastir, but the PID was still running, and I had to kill
>> that with Top. Restarted Xastir, opened up my interface, switched  
>> from
>> ttyS0 to ttys1, closed the box, and again no buttons to start the
>> interface, so I 'x" it, reopened it, highlighted my interface,  
>> clicked
>> start, and bingo, we were up and running.
>>
>> No longer a problem for me, now that my interface is configured,  
>> but I
>> thought I would send a heads up about it.
>
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