On 24 Aug 2011, at 08:57, Viktor Radnai wrote:
> I could be wrong but it appears to me that FG will hang if the METAR
> server is unreachable. I was using FG while connected to the Internet
> via my phone (through wifi). Whenever my phone reboots or connectivity
> is lost, FG would produce a square wave pattern on my CPU meter. It
> would run for 10 sec and block for 20 sec with CPU use on 0, then run
> again for 10 sec, etc. Disabling live METAR data would make this go
> away. I presume this only happens if the connection to the METAR server
> times out, but would be highly annoying to any user.
Yep, this is known, I'm working on a fix, but the first attempt to commit it
caused other problems - working on fixing the issues at the moment.
See:
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=401
James
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