[Xastir] Xastir with VMware

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:37:48PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <patrickdk at patrickdk.com> flavor, containing:
> Not saying this doesn't work or anything but: :)
> I have been having the issue, with ubuntu 9.04 jaunty (running it on  
> my mythtv system, and won't upgrade to karmic till I verify mythtv  
> updates are ok)
> 
> I was using a very old slackware box, with custom compiled xastir on  
> it, it worked for along time, till I upgraded xastir at some point,  
> and it started randomly crashing once every day. Then I finally  
> decommissioned that machine and setup xastir on ubuntu 9.04, same  
> issue. Was really suprised, thought it was an issue with a dependency.
> 
> The only abnormal thing I'm doing is feeding xastir with the full raw  
> aprs-is feed.
> 
> And using cron to restart doesn't help, cause it will close any  
> messages people send to me, so I wouldn't know about them.

Ok, this is a sad thing to hear.

I built an Ubuntu 9.10 virtualbox virtual machine a week or two ago when I 
was fixing the ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick annoyance, and still have it.  I 
will set it up sometime in the next few days to run Xastir continuously until
I reproduce this craziness.  Not sure I can track it down, but I'll try.

It's got to be some unstable library issue, but who knows which one?

Feh.

Question:  Are you guys using Xastir CVS or Xastir as installed by the Ubuntu
repositories?  As I recall, Ubuntu repositories have only 1.9.4, which is 
pretty long in the tooth right now.   Regardless, any fix 
that happens (if it happens) will be on CVS and you can bet it'll take a year 
or two to make it into the packaged binary.  So if you're running from the
apt-installed version,  please try uninstalling the repository version
and building from CVS (remember that the .xastir directory will be full of 
invalid references to /usr/share, so you'll have to move it out of the way and  
restore your settings, and you'll have to move your custom maps from /usr/share/
xastir to /usr/local/share/xastir).   You might luck out and find that the 
issue has been fixed in CVS already (I dimly recall some instability issues
related to bad pointer references a few releases back).

> Quoting Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com>:
> 
> > Thanks Tom, that works!
> >
> > Duffy
> > www.wb8nut.com
> >
> > Tom Russo wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:44:13AM -0600, we recorded a  
> >> bogon-computron collision of the <kd5ckp at gmail.com> flavor,  
> >> containing:
> >>
> >>> I dont think will start a jub running in X
> >>>
> >>
> >> Try:
> >>
> >>  env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xastir
> >>
> >> instead.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Amateur Radio WB8NUT  
> >>> <duffy at wb8nut.com>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> To work around the problem, I created a crontab job to kill  
> >>>> xastir and then
> >>>> restart it.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Crontab is laid out like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> 01 03 * * * pkill -9 -f xastir
> >>>> 02 03 * * * /usr/bin/xastir
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> >>>
> >>
> >>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> No virus found in this incoming message.
> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.427 / Virus Database:  
> >> 270.14.111/2570 - Release Date: 12/17/09 08:30:00
> >>
> >>
> >
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