[Xastir] GeoTiffs Segfault on indexing maps

[Liz]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:12:53 -0600
Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> > 
> > Now I can see the errors for the GeoTiffs 
> > 
> > *** geoTIFF file /usr/share/xastir/maps/tif/8231s.tif is not in the
> > proper format: ***** Has 3 samples per pixel instead of 1
> > *** Please reformat it and try again.  
> 
> That's easy to deal with.  Install gdal, then use "rgb2pct.py" (a
> python script installed by gdal) to dither the 3-band, 24-bit color
> image (RGB) to an 8-bit color map (pct = Pseudo Color Table).

This stopped the obvious error messages but still no map loaded.
I hadn't tried any debugging from xastir as previously advised so I am
passing the problem to the family GIS service.

Liz VK2XSE