Alex Carver wrote:
--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Ray Wells wrote:
From: Ray Wells
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system
To: "Alex Carver"
Cc: xastir@xastir.org
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 3:59 AM
Alex Carver wrote:
I know this was a couple of weeks ago but I finally started
getting
lockups with bulletins turned on, but I can't be
absolutely sure of
what's causing them. I first suspected xfbb because it
appeared to
happen around housekeeping at 2.00am, but the next night
the time was
different, and then it happened through the day when, in a
sense,
nothing was happening except the usual apps - fpac, fbb,
xastir - were
running. The system has been stable for near two years so
it's hard to
point the finger at the "usual" things.
The only thing different that I did over the weekend was to
change the
zoom level on the maps I use. I normally run 270 to see the
local digi
coverage area but I took this to 700 to keep an eye on a
mobile about
150km away. In total, the machine locked up 4 times in two
days.
Since turning off bulletins, and retaining zoom 700, the
machine hasn't
locked up again.
The maps are topographic maps, if that is significant.
The only maps I had going were the Tiger shapefiles. However, I've since
switched to Fluxbox from Gnome (which was the default on the installation) and
everything is fine. So there was something going on in the background with one
of the multitude of applications that Gnome installs that likely caused the
problem. It's been nearly flawless with Fluxbox.
My system locked up again overnight so it certainly isn't zoom level as
it appeared to be. I don't change zoom levels very often, in fact the
same map and zoom level has been used for at least 6 days now and I'm
not tracking anyone. xastir is just left to run displaying a topo map.
cpu useage for xastir at present is 0.3%
This is a system that's been stable for near two years and I haven't
made any recent changes. The last updates were many weeks ago which
makes unlikely a newer version of something being responsible.
Back to gathering evidence.
Ray vk2tv
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