[Xastir] New User

[Hank Lambert]

Well I followed the Ubuntu 10.04 How-to for installing Xastir, including the
installation of GDAL. Everything went fine and I encountered no errors
during installation. Xastir, however, will not start. When I go to launch
it, this is what is displayed:

hank at Mint10 ~ $ xastir
Found pid file: /home/hank/.xastir/xastir.pid
Other Xastir process, pid: 6238 does not appear be running. 


Built-in map types:
      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
       pop   USGS GNIS Datapoints w/population
       map   APRSdos Maps
       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps

Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: 
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
       geo   URL (OpenStreetMaps via libcurl library
                  Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA)
       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
       tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
       tab   MapInfo TAB
       mid   MapInfo MID
       mif   MapInfo MIF
       ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
       rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
       s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
       dgn   MicroStation DGN

x_spider: Can't bind local address
Could some processes still be running from a previous run of Xastir?
Error: BindingCould some processes still be running from a previous run of
Xastir?
UDP_Server process died.
x_spider: Couldn't set read-end of pipe_udp_server_to_xastir non-blocking
Could some processes still be running from a previous run of Xastir?
XReadBitmapFile() failed: Bitmap not found?
/usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2.xbm
XReadBitmapFile() failed: Bitmap not found?
/usr/share/xastir/symbols/2x2.xbm
hank at Mint10 ~ $

Does anyone know why it isn't starting?

Thanks for the help.

73,


Hank Lambert
KB4MTO/TA5ZC
hank at hanklambert.com
kb4mto at winlink.org
www.hanklambert.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:26 AM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New User

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:21:39AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Hank Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your reply, I will definitely do that. Should I uninstall
Xastir
> > from Synaptic before I start the cvs install?
> 
> Yes.  Plus depending on whether the Synaptic install put things in the
default locations that CVS will, you may wish to delete your ~/.xastir/
directory and contents as well.
> 
> If Synaptic put Xastir's map directory at /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/
then you can probably skip the ~/.xastir/ directory deletion.  If it put it
anywhere else, then it's easier just to delete your per-user config
directory and let the new Xastir create a fresh one for you.  Be aware that
if you do delete it, your callsign/location/internet connects/etc will need
to be redone in the new Xastir.

The synaptic-installed version, like most Linux packages, makes everything
live in /usr, not /usr/local.  So it is necessary to fix the user config
on any Debian-based system on which Xastir has been installed from packages.

It is one of the first steps listed in the Ubuntu installation notes page on
the wiki.

Blowing away the .xastir director is probably the easiest approach for a
brand
new user, as Hank has indicated is his case.  He is unlikely to have
installed
lots of local maps, or to have configured very many complex things --- he
has
also said he just uses an internet server at the moment rather than any sort
of
TNC set-up.

-- 
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