udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io | DRAWS Image 15 and Xastir

Jack Spitznagel

#4530

Basil, All,

Did I miss a posting about this? Had trouble getting XASTIR to load following the install and configure checklist/instructions in the group Wiki.

I finally got a chance (well, was forced by an apparent image 14 SD card brainfart) to load and configure DRAWS image 15. I was taking consulting calls and doing a pile of paperwork concurrently, so I beg idiocy and broken focus.

The load and configure went just fine until after Direwolf was configured and I tried to launch and configure XASTIR. I could not get it to come up using the icon or the console. I did do all reboots as required in the checklist.

I wish I had been less busy and had recorded exactly what I tried during my salvage attempt but the sequence was something like:

used APT to attempt an update – failed saying a library was missing (“maria***.lib” or something like it)
used the repair option and it failed, missing the same library
one of the error messages suggested a full system update and to try again, update succeeded.
Repair option then worked and XASTIR started.

Basil, I am kicking myself that I did not write things down. I can’t remember if this image enables an install log by default. If so will be glad to send it.

XASTIR is happily working in spite of all that so priority is more for others than for me.

Jack Spitznagel – KD4IZ

Biomedical Consulting Services

Basil Gunn

#4531

Thanks Jack.

If you can't get xastir to start from clicking the desktop icon then
open a console and run xastir from the console. Doing this will display
any problems that may be occurring that you won't see from clicking the
desktop icon.

I'll do a fresh install later today to see if I can replicate.
/Basil n7nix



Jack Spitznagel <kd4iz@frawg.org> writes:

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Basil, All,

Did I miss a posting about this? Had trouble getting XASTIR to load
following the install and configure checklist/instructions in the group
Wiki.

I finally got a chance (well, was forced by an apparent image 14 SD card
brainfart) to load and configure DRAWS image 15. I was taking consulting
calls and doing a pile of paperwork concurrently, so I beg idiocy and broken
focus. 

The load and configure went just fine until after Direwolf was configured
and I tried to launch and configure XASTIR. I could not get it to come up
using the icon or the console. I did do all reboots as required in the
checklist.

I wish I had been less busy and had recorded exactly what I tried during my
salvage attempt but the sequence was something like:

1.	used APT to attempt an update - failed saying a library was missing
("maria***.lib" or something like it)
2.	used the repair option and it failed, missing the same library
3.	one of the error messages suggested a full system update and to try
again, update succeeded.
4.	Repair option then worked and XASTIR started.

Basil, I am kicking myself that I did not write things down. I can't
remember if this image enables an install log by default. If so will be glad
to send it.

XASTIR is happily working in spite of all that so priority is more for
others than for me.

Jack Spitznagel - KD4IZ

Biomedical Consulting Services

Jack Spitznagel

#4532

I have a 2nd DRAWS unit I use for porta/mobile activities and an SD card that already has the “virgin” image on it. I will give it a try this afternoon and record the results. More to come.

Best
--
Jack - KD4IZ

Basil Gunn

#4533

Hi Jack,

The following is what I did from a clean install of image15 to get Xastir to run.
I tried to run Xastir from just a clean install & I received this error:

xastir: error while loading shared libraries: libgeotiff.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After doing the following Xastir ran fine.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -y -qq install shapelib libshp-dev libgeotiff-dev libwebp-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev
shutdown -r now

/Basil n7nix


Jack Spitznagel <kd4iz@frawg.org> writes:

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I have a 2nd DRAWS unit I use for porta/mobile activities and an SD card that already has the “virgin” image on it. I will give it a try this afternoon and record the results. More to come.

Best

Jack Spitznagel

#4534

Did not exactly follow that but did "some".

My error was "xastir: error while loading shared libraries: libgeotiff.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" so I'll back up unless and try again unless you plan to change the image so those steps are not needed.
--
Jack - KD4IZ

Basil Gunn

#4535

My error was
"xastir: error while loading shared libraries:> libgeotiff.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory"Yep. I confirm that's also what I see.

so I'll back up unless and try again unless you plan to
change the image so those steps are not needed.This is easily fixed with what I previously posted so will not be
releasing a new image for that. The xs_install.sh script already fixes
this problem.

sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -y -qq install shapelib libshp-dev libgeotiff-dev libwebp-dev
libgraphicsmagick1-dev

/Basil n7nix

Jack Spitznagel

#4536

Thanks Basil,

It worked. But when I went to wrap things up for my style of operating with raspbian LINUX, I tried to install synaptic and xscreensaver. Both attempts started by retrieving and failed at the extracting steps with a "dpkg returned an error code (2)".

Fortunately XASTIR still starts and runs as do other apps, so I am not totally hamstrung.

See error message detail below:

For Synaptic install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libcairo-perl.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

For Xscreensaver install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libglade2-0:armhf.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

I tried several of the dpkg recovery suggestions from online raspbian help sources, but none did the trick so I could continue with the installations.Are there any tricks to bring *dpkg* back to its senses or rebuild the specified files with empty filenames?

Thanks for responding even if I am off topic here...

--
Jack - KD4IZ

Basil Gunn

#4537

Hi Jack,

Something to try.

Use the console commands instead of synaptic so you can cut & paste the
output into an email to me.

sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install --fix-missing
apt-get dist-upgrade

Send me the console output of the above commands.

/Basil


Jack Spitznagel <kd4iz@frawg.org> writes:

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Thanks Basil,

It worked. But when I went to wrap things up for my style of operating with raspbian LINUX, I tried to install synaptic and xscreensaver. Both attempts started by retrieving and failed at the extracting steps with a "dpkg returned an error code (2)".

Fortunately XASTIR still starts and runs as do other apps, so I am not totally hamstrung.

See error message detail below:

For Synaptic install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libcairo-perl.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

For Xscreensaver install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libglade2-0:armhf.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

I tried several of the dpkg recovery suggestions from online raspbian
help sources, but none did the trick so I could continue with the
installations.Are there any tricks to bring *dpkg* back to its senses
or rebuild the specified files with empty filenames?

Thanks for responding even if I am off topic here...

Bill Vodall

#4538

Use the console commands instead of synaptic so you can cut & paste the
output into an email to me.

sudo su
apt-get update

I've seen issues arise when using both synaptic and command line apt-get. Be careful and watch for weirdness.

Daniel Sohn

#4539

Hi Jack,

Something to try.

Use the console commands instead of synaptic so you can cut & paste the
output into an email to me.

sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install --fix-missing
apt-get dist-upgrade

Send me the console output of the above commands.

/Basil


Jack Spitznagel <kd4iz@frawg.org> writes:

Show quoted text

Thanks Basil,

It worked. But when I went to wrap things up for my style of operating with raspbian LINUX, I tried to install synaptic and xscreensaver. Both attempts started by retrieving and failed at the extracting steps with a "dpkg returned an error code (2)".

Fortunately XASTIR still starts and runs as do other apps, so I am not totally hamstrung.

See error message detail below:

For Synaptic install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libcairo-perl.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

For Xscreensaver install - when unpacking:
"Selecting previously unselected package libglade2-0:armhf.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'rpi-eeprom-images' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

I tried several of the dpkg recovery suggestions from online raspbian
help sources, but none did the trick so I could continue with the
installations.Are there any tricks to bring *dpkg* back to its senses
or rebuild the specified files with empty filenames?

Thanks for responding even if I am off topic here...

Jack Spitznagel

#4540

Hi Basil,

I ran your script sequence from the previous note-

sudo su

apt-get update

apt-get install --fix-missing

apt-get dist-upgrade

As requested, here is the console output from that session:

pi@kd4izdraws2:~ $ sudo su

root@kd4izdraws2:/home/pi# apt-get update

Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease

Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]

Fetched 15.0 kB in 1s (15.3 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

root@kd4izdraws2:/home/pi# apt-get install --fix-missing

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

alsa-base gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base libegl-dev

libgles-dev libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0

libgstreamer0.10-0 libjpeg9 libllvm6.0 libopengl0 libva-wayland2

libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev

libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev

libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common

libxfce4util7 libxfconf-0-2 libxshmfence-dev pimixer point-rpi xfconf

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@kd4izdraws2:/home/pi# apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done