[Xastir] Xastir with VMware

Thu Dec 17 14:10:43 EST 2009

Tom Russo wrote:
> 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).
>   
Hi Tom and all,

I am using Xastir 1.9.4 from the Ubuntu repositories.

The reason I am using the version from the repositories is that I 
honestly do not want to go through a self-install compiling the code, 
etc. The current appliances that were pre-built are not using the latest 
version of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, hence why I opted to build my own 
appliance.

I guess I could try to compile and install my own version, but I don't 
know if I want to go through the process. I like Linux, but I find that 
Linux is very frustrating at times and I think the world should have 
evolved beyond having to use a terminal all the time....sorry, 
editorializing.

In any case, since no one sends me messages...well not too often :-(   I 
don't care much about it closing and restarting at 4:00 in the morning.

I will also try the pre-built appliance to see if the current version 
has the same issues as the one I built.

Best Regards,

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com
>   
>> 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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