Re: Spam:*****, Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 8, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Chip G. wrote: is it certain to he the driver? Nope. I was getting pretty wound up trying to solve a similar problem. It eventually occurred to me that my faithful Keyspan device might actually be dead. It was. -Jason kg4wsv ___

Re: Spam:*****, Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- "Chip G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to hear other suggestions. If the problem > does relate to the > USB adapter, is there any chance it relates to the > Xastir code? Or is > it certain to he the driver? I doubt it's Xastir because Xastir doesn't really know it's a USB device.

Re: Spam:*****, Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-08 Thread Chip G.
On Jul 5, 2007, at 07:34, N1OFZ wrote: I have had Xastir running here for over a month and I've had it run even longer with no usb dongles. I ONLY use Keyspan usb -> serial adapters on the Mac. I have others that are Prolific based and have had varying success, though they run fine under

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-05 Thread N1OFZ
Hi Chip, I have had Xastir running here for over a month and I've had it run even longer with no usb dongles. I ONLY use Keyspan usb -> serial adapters on the Mac. I have others that are Prolific based and have had varying success, though they run fine under Linux. Last year I did a 5

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-04 Thread Chip G.
On Jul 4, 2007, at 15:46, Chip G. wrote: It made it at least 4.5 hours, but it did eventually freeze. So it wasn't the bleeding edge release since the stable release is having the same problem. The latest version of the USB driver has the same problem. I guess the next step will be to resta

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-04 Thread Chip G.
On Jul 4, 2007, at 09:02, Jason Winningham wrote: On Jul 4, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Chip G. wrote: So far I've changed two things. I recompiled with a stable release. I installed an updated USB driver. We'll see if the two help. If everything is stable I'll try going back to the latest release.

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-03 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Curt Mills wrote: Note: I'm not a Mac user, but _am_ a Unix and Linux user/SysAdmin, me too... so I'm not sure how fragile a Mac is these days. I would think not very fragile... nope, not at all. I personally rank it just below solaris and above linux in r

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Chip G. wrote: > A couple of notes. Do not fixate on the kill command format used here. I had > just randomly found that a -4 would at least get it to try and quit (I'm > assuming that's what the parenthesis mean), no other command would even cause > a change. Just for future

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Chip G. wrote: > And locked up again between 9:55PM and 10:08PM while writing the email. It is > completely unusable again on this end, at least on that machine. I'm going to > have to spend an entire day trying to clean things and reinstall everything > again. Reinstall what?

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:41:36PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > 1. Why are three processes starting every time Xastir runs and what are the > > other processes doing? > > I dunno, but they are supposed to be there. add dif

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Chip G. wrote: I have no idea what some of that stuff means ... time to RTFM for ps. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZRSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND jdw232 2.1 0.056044476 p1 RFri06AM 103:52.88 xastir jdw231 0.8

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Chip G.
On Jul 2, 2007, at 22:06, Chip G. wrote: 3. Why does the latest CVS builds on Xastir lockup after only a couple of hours operating? And locked up again between 9:55PM and 10:08PM while writing the email. It is completely unusable again on this end, at least on that machine. I'm going to h

[Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Chip G.
I've written about this before. Never did get resolution. Now it's a problem again. Xastir is locking up on me after only a couple of hours of operation. This is a royal PITA because when it locks up I can't get it to quit unless I reboot the computer. I've tried kill and killall commands.