Tom, Thanks! Deleting that files fixed the problem. I know that I didn't already have an instance of Xastir running because I had restarted several times, thinking that was the problem based on the error message.
As far as a graceful exit, there were a few times that I shut it down by removing power from the BBB. That is most likely the cause for the PID file being left behind. I'm learning bit by bit :o) Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com ________________________________ From: Tom Russo <[email protected]> To: Jason Rausch <[email protected]>; Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Pid File Error On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:27:52PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > I've had Xastir running on Wheezy for over a week now. ?I started up the BBB > today, typed "xastir &" into the terminal and got this error: > > [email protected]:~$ Found pid file: /home/debian/.xastir/xastir.pid > Other Xastir process, pid: 0 May be running. ?Exiting.. > > I'm lost and dumbfounded how I can shut it down (working perfectly yesterday) > then boot it up tonight to have this happen. > > Any tips? ?Thanks! That's odd. Is there actually an Xastir process running? If not, you can simply remove the file "/home/debian/.xastir/xastir.pid" then the error message will go away. If so, you can kill it. ps auxww | grep xastir then use "kill <process number>" for each xastir process you see. If there ARE no processes running, then the pid file is stale and you should just remove it. Did you shut down your BBB without exiting Xastir first? When Xastir exits cleanly it should remove that file itself. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
