[Qgis-user] live tracking problem

[Randal Hale]

Are you running as root or a local user when talking to the GPS?

Randy

On 03/17/2015 09:06 AM, Ramon Andiñach wrote:
> I have the same symptom set for builds of both 2.8 ltr and master,
>
> so if anyone has suggestions, I'd be appreciative!
>
> (the windows box is too big to carry around, in case that gets suggested...)
>
> -ramon.
> On 17/03/2015, at 18:42 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wondered if anyone had seen something like this?
>>
>> I have 2 mint17 (ubuntu14.04) installs that both are failing to connect to either of my gps.
>>
>> The gps are connecting and are being assigned a port.
>> I can observe communications.
>> I can use gpsbabel to access data on them.
>> (So I think the operating system is communicating with them fine)
>>
>> If I try to connect them inside QGIS, after a 2 second wait (which is really, really short) QGIS tells me that it failed to connect to the gps.
>> I can not see any further information in the log or on the terminal.
>> There is no sign in the terminal that QGIS actually looked (in previous versions I can see which ports QGIS is trying in the terminal).
>>
>> To complicate things, the same gps work perfectly on a win7 install (standalone or osgeo4w).
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>> Are there any pointers?
>>
>> At this point I've.
>> Updated everything in sight.
>> Uninstalled/reinstalled
>> Uninstalled/removed .qgis2/reinstalled
>> uninstalled/swapped repositaries/reinstalled
>> and am currently compiling master to see if that helps.
>>
>> -ramon.
>>
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