Hello Bill,

just a quick update on this, I'm happy to confirm that this has been fixed
in RC4.

Thank you and keep up the good work!

73s
Jakob DD5JFK

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Bill Somerville <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 11/01/2021 20:43, Jakob Ketterl DD5JFK wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I have been updating some machines to WSJT-X 2.3.0 for testing and
> > implementing the new FST4 and FST4W modes in OpenWebRX.
> >
> > While doing so, I noticed that the WSPR decoding stopped working on
> > these hosts. For reference: The decoding process for all WSJT-X modes
> > in OpenWebRX uses the command-line binaries (jt9 and wsprd) and feeds
> > them with already "chopped" audio files.
> >
> > While analyzing, I found that wsprd command-line utility seems to fail
> > whenever the "-a" option is not specified. The usage message states
> > that the option should have a fallback, but it seems like that part is
> > failing for some reason:
> >
> > -a <path> path to writeable data files, default="."
> >
> > The corresponding error message:
> >
> > Error: inaccessible data directory: '(null)'
> >
> > I was able to fix this for now by passing "-a ." to the process, but
> > given the usage message I'd consider this a bug (albeit a minor one).
> > I have not looked at the code at this point, but I can do so if
> necessary.
> >
> > Also: I don't remember this kind of error in RC2, although I would
> > need to downgrade one of my machines to be able to make a final
> > statement on this.
> >
> > Thank you and 73s
> > Jakob DD5JFK
>
> Hi Jakob,
>
> thanks for the issue report, I can conform this was a regression in
> v2.3.0 RC3 introduced when a check for an inaccessible data directory
> was implemented. It is fixed for the next release.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
>
>
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