[Xastir] {Disarmed} Xastir Freezes
Curt, WE7U
curt.we7u at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 13:30:19 EST 2012
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI wrote:
> Curt and all, I found that Xastir is not grabbing the serial port since I can open the port with minicom while Xastir is supposed to have it. I don't get a lockfile type of message saying it was in use by another application.
>
> My speculation is one of the recent Debian 6 updates is causing the port to not open in Xastir. Not sure which one though.
Xastir creates locks like tis:
/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0
Containing: "25334 xastir <user>"
Where the 25334 is the PID and he <user> is your login.
The problem most likely still has to do with permissions, but check where lock files are created on your system: It may be different than the above.
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