[Xastir] New User

[Hank Lambert]

I killed the two processes that were running and moved .xastir like you
suggested. Xastir is now up and running. Now it's time to start playing with
the maps. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks!

73,


Hank Lambert
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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 8:22 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New User

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:17:10PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <hank at hanklambert.com> flavor, containing:
> 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. 
> 
> 
[...]
> 
> 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 ~ $

Is there any process named "xastir" actually running?

  ps auxww | grep xastir

If so, kill -9 it.

You also seem not to have removed your .xastir directory, because it's
trying 
to look for files in /usr/share/xastir, which is where the
synaptic-installed
version would have put things.  Your scratch-built version should be looking
in /usr/local/share/xastir.  This is controlled by the file xastir.cnf in 
your .xastir/config directoy.  It was first created by the synaptic version
you installed, and is now pointing to the wrong place.  So:

  mv .xastir dot_xastir_old

and restart (after killing any stray old processes).  It should regenerate
your
.xastir directory and repopulate it appropriately.  You'll have to re-enter
all of your callsign/callpass/interface data if you do it that way.  But
it's
a clean, fresh start.

The other option you can take rather than moving .xastir is to edit 
.xastir/config/xastir.cnf and change all the places where it refers to 
/usr/share and replace them with /usr/local/share.


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