[Xastir] test

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:43:19AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> I'm not at the VM right now, so I can't do much more debugging until later
> this evening, but I can answer a few questions.
> 
> I believe that the program at PID 5561 (in the example) was Xastir.
> 
> Random...yes, but now it happens more often than not when I attempt to start
> Xastir.
> 
> It happens during the startup of Xastir, typically before the Xastir window is
> displayed, but not always that early (sometimes I see the Xastir window
> flash).
> 
> I suspect this may have something to do with map display...I've been playing
> with splitting the Tiger2008 data into smaller files (and have that part
> complete). It was after this splitting that Xastir started acting up on me.
> The resulting split multiples the number of files dramatically; I'd have to
> check to see just how many files I have in this Tiger2008 folder.

Yep, if it started showing up when you started this process, there's probably
something in that.  

> I'll check /var/log/messages this evening and see if I can get any more
> details there. If this is Xastir, is there a particular debug flag (i.e., -v
> 4095) that I could set on startup to provide relevant information?

Try 528.  That's "map import/export debugging" and "map debugging".  Perhaps
some clue will come of what is happening right before the crash.

You might be able to stop the crash by hand-editing the 
.xastir/config/selected_maps.sys file to remove the last batch of maps you 
added.  This would at least tell you whether it was adding those maps that 
started the crash, and start to narrow it down from there.

Since Xastir doesn't use the KDE libraries and therefore can't be *directly*
outputting that error message, it must be that something about the running 
Xastir instance is causing a problem for the window manager or other system
component that *DOES* use KDE libraries.  This'll be a fun thing to track
down.  For values of fun approaching pain.

> On Wed, May 6, 2009 10:13 am, Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:06:21AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:06:43AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> >> collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> >> > I'm playing with the Xastir Xubuntu virtual machine and I'm having some
> >> > issues...anyone know what causes this exit status and what I need to do to
> >> fix
> >> > it?
> >> >
> >> > ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 5561, errno = 32
> >>
> >> Gak.  No, never seen this.  Does it happen immediately upon start-up, or
> >> does something precipitate it?  Is it random?  Can you tell what program was
> >> running in process 5561?
> >>
> >> I've googled that error and see lots of places where people have asked about
> >> this error message in the last 5 years, but so far no answers.
> >
> > I'm still seeing more questions than answers, but wonder if there are any
> > messages in the system logs (/var/log/messages) that might coincide with the
> > error on the console.
> >
> > ICE is related to the KDE libraries.  So whatever it is, there's something
> > not playing well with the desktop.
> >
> > I'm unable to mess with the virtual machine today so can't try to reproduce
> > it for a while.  I'm real curious what it could be, though.
> >
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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
  In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. 
                                  -- Ineffective daily affirmation