[Xastir] Quickly closing...

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:

> I run Xastir in an X11 window on my MacBook Pro. I used it a couple of weeks 
> ago to track one of our high altitude balloon launches and everything worked 
> great. I launched it today and the window comes up and immediately closes. I 
> have no idea where to even begin looking for a problem, the application 
> (Xastir) won't stay up long enough for me to look at any of the setting. Can 
> anyone out there tell me where to start looking, or give me an idea what is 
> happening?

The advice to launch it from a shell window is good as it should
give you some error messages.  You can also start Xastir like this
to get much more info:

     xastir -v 2047 &

Perhaps you set some interface(s) to "Active on startup" but have
devices unplugged from USB ports?  If that's the trouble you can
plug in those same devices to the same ports, or you can edit
~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf to find DEVICE0_ONSTARTUP:
(DEVICE1_ONSTARTUP:, DEVICE2_ONSTARTUP:, etc) and change the number
on the end to a '0'.

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