[Xastir] No more lockups with radar map

[Alex Carver]

--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Gerry Creager wrote:

> From: Gerry Creager 
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] No more lockups with radar map
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at xastir.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 6:39 PM

> Argh.  Another bug report on the radar stuff.  I'll add
> it to the list.

Actually this has nothing to do with the radar images you serve up.  I only pull one radar image directly from NWS servers.  So it's the NWS feed that breaks ImageMagick at times.

> 
> Alex Carver wrote:
> > Switching to GraphicsMagick worked but it also
> explained the error.  ImageMagick was failing without
> printing an error so I had no idea what was going on.  But
> with GM, it tells me that occasionally the radar GIF is
> corrupt and thus GM bombs out.  It would appear that the
> combination of IM/Xastir doesn't handle this situation
> quite as gracefully as GM/Xastir thus leading to the
> lockups.