[Xastir] Xastir with VMware

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 08:30:34AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
> 
> > I created a new virtual machine using the 9.10 Xubuntu release. Xastir works 
> > fine for about 20 to 24 hours, then completely locks up and has to be shut 
> > down from the terminal using the command pkill -9 -f xastir.
> >
> > VMware Player and the Xubuntu system itself does not seem to be having any 
> > issues. Everything else continues to run fine. Using Xastir version 1.9.4.
> >
> > Any hints where to look for the problem?
> 
> If Xastir is totally locking up, perhaps the time in the virtual
> machine got adjusted backwards.  In that case Xastir will wait until
> the time gets back to where it was or further before some of the IF
> statements based on time get triggered again.

I thought that there was a pop-up or console message that it was doing that,
though.

Of course, if it's a console message and the user is using a desktop icon to
start the thing...


I've got my Ubuntu 9.10 VirtualBox machine running Xastir now, configured
almost the same as the native Xastir running on the BSD machine that's
running VirtualBox --- it's only been running for an hour now, so we'll have
to see what happens in the next day or so.  I've run it from a terminal
window, so I should see any warning message about Xastir going into the tank
over time-warp issues.

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