[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 69, Issue 9 k8pet Ubuntu 11.04 issues -- resolved

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 02:26:49PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <k8pet at orrresearch.com> flavor, containing:
> Thanks to Curt WE7U and Steve KD5MKV, the problem was isolated ans resolved.
>  The system monitor did not show another instance of xastir running, but
> closer inspection of the error gave the clue!
> 
> xastir symbols files were under /usr/local/share/symbols but the error was
> for the file  /usr/share/symbols/2x2.xbm!
> 
> > XReadBitmapFile() failed: Bitmap not found?
> > /usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2.xbm
> 
> There really was no such file!  I deleted xastir.cnf in ~/.xastir and voila,
> I could run as a regular user!

Means you had a relic of an old install from packages, which had installed
in /usr/share instead of /usr/local/share (where your source code install did.

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