On 2/6/20 10:02 am, Tom Russo wrote:

Thank you Tom,

If you're running from a package, that stuff is usually in /usr/share/xastir
instead, and getting this message means you probably have an xastir.cnf
file that is left over from a source-built install (that is, it contains
configuration for Xastir to look in /usr/local/share/xastir, but the package
didn't install stuff there).

I did install from the Ubuntu 20.04 repository, but I did attempt to build xastir 2.08 but it failed because of a missing dependency. I had build this version under Kubuntu 19.10 in the past successfully but rather than stuff around I installed the 20.04 package instead. The package installer offered me two choices, "yes" and "no". It read something like "if you don't know what you're doing then select the default option" which is "yes". Xastir installed but would only run as root so I uninstalled and this time selected "no" and all was fine until I rebooted the next day.

Can you see a likely source of a problem there?

my ./xastir.cnf includes the following:

AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
ALERT_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties
SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
SELECTED_MAP_DATA:config/selected_maps.sys
MAP_INDEX_DATA:config/map_index.sys
SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
GROUP_DATA_FILE:config/groups
GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/geocode
SHOW_FIND_TARGET:1

However, there isn't a /usr/local/share/xastir directory, only /usr/local/share. If I rename my .xastir.cnf file then xastir will start and will rebuild the same .xastir.cnf file.

There is a conflict there. I thought about purging the xastir package rather than uninstalling it but I don't think that explains the conflict in my ./xastir.cnf file.

What do you suggest now?

By the way, I'm not interested in festival.

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Regards,
Phil

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