[Xastir] version interactions?

[Craig Anderson]

Hi all,
	I think I have narrowed the problems down to
the Debian machine and not the Mac OS X.  I haven't
change the OS X machine in months but the Debian
machine is currently under constant change.

I've switched back to the Debian standard Xastir
version 1.8.2 and this still has the problem.  I
did a "make uninstall" on the 1.9.2 version of Xastir,
which was installed in /usr/local while the 1.8.2 was
installed in /usr.  I noticed that the 1.8.2 version works
fine until I turn on the server ports, then it goes into
molasses mode and takes 30 seconds to display a
pull-down menu.

I don't get any good data through a telnet connection
to the server ports regardless whether they are local
or remote to the Debian server.

When I compiled and installed the 1.9.2 version I
did not install any new libraries, I used the ones
that Debian installed for the 1.8.2 version.  But now
the 1.8.2 version is screwed up.

<rant>

I hate dynamically linked libraries.  If you are the only
one using a library, they work fine.  But with a lot of
applications sharing them some other application can
fiddle with a library and blow up Xastir and it'll be hell
to find it.

At this point I think the easiest thing to do is to
re-install the whole box and start over.

I had a boss who once said:
"once you know how computers really work, you
really wonder how they work at all."

Having a degree in computer science helps,
mainly to know how futile this effort can be.

</rant>

Craig
n6yxk

On Apr 11, 2008, at 5:19 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

>> Anyone got any *wild* ideas for my tired old brain?
>
> Did the server machine's firewall happen to get turned on somewhere
> along the way?
>
> Does the terminal where you start xastir offer any clues?
>
> You can bypass xastir on the client by simply using telnet to connect
> to the xastir server port - the data is printable.
>
> First, on the xastir server, do "telnet localhost 2023" and see if any
> data comes through (this will require that you're receiving data,
> naturally).  This test will tell you that the xastir server is really
> serving data.
>
> Next, go to the client machine and "telnet serverip 2023" and see if
> you get any data there.
>
> Not ideas, other than the firewall thing, but some basic
> troubleshooting steps...
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv