[Xastir] PNG snapshot issues

[Tony Hunt]

Lee .. I went with the thought of reinstalling libxpm4 but before that I 
first tried to enable the PNG snapshots again just to make sure it was still 
busted. Today it works fine. So on the basis that I can not reproduce the 
problem any more I guess we will drop it. Its certainly odd. Even a reboot 
of the whole machine yesterday would not fix it.

Tony Hunt VK5AH

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> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:37:19 -0500
> From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] PNG snapshot issues
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> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net> 
> wrote:
>> Last night I did a fresh install of Mepis 8.5 followed by a install of 
>> Lee Beningstons latest deb file. Gdebi winged about libmotif3 being 
>> unsatisfiable as a dependancy but I found I could actually fix this via 
>> the repositries.
>>
>> Today they did a Balloon flight with APRS running on it for about 4 
>> hours. I managed to log the flight with xastir and also had KML as well 
>> as PNG snapshots running.
>>
>> Later on I went back to xastir and now I find that every time I enable 
>> PNG snapshots xastir hangs imediately and exits after about 2 minutes. 
>> The CPU usage climbs pretty quickly to 95% on the xastir process and then 
>> xastir dies.
>>
>> I dont know if this issue has been addressed recently or not but I 
>> thought it worth a mention. Also if anyone knows how to make PNG 
>> snapshots work again it would be good. I have tried a few things but its 
>> busted now.
>>
>> Below is the terminal error output after xastir dies.
>>
>> X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such 
>> operation)
>>
>> Major opcode of failed request: 188 ()
>>
>> Minor opcode of failed request: 0
>>
>> Serial number of failed request: 3121131
>>
>> Current serial number in output stream: 3121820
>>
>> [1]+ Exit 1 xastir
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I've been playing around with that binary under Mepis 8.5, but so far
> I've been unable to duplicate the problem.  As I recall, snaphots rely
> on libxpm.  The only thing I can think of at this time is to try
> reinstalling the libxpm4 package.  In synaptic, you can search for
> libxpm4, mark it for reinstallation, and apply the change.
>
> That binary is based on a CVS download from September 8, 2010.  I
> don't know if that will ring a bell with anyone regarding known
> issues.  What is curious about your experience is that snapshots
> worked for a time, and then something changed, and that change is the
> mystery.
>
> My Mepis 8.5 was not up to date with respect to package upgrades when
> I installed the binary, but it was not a brand new installation,
> either.  After I installed the binary, things worked OK, so then I did
> a complete package upgrade via synaptic, and that didn't break
> anything - still not seeing the snapshot issue.
>
> I'll let you know if I find out anything further.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX