[Qgis-user] live tracking problem

[Ramon Andiñach]

The user is in the right groups such that gpsbabel is usable as the user, so running as root shouldn't be needed. 

But, yes I've tried the run as root idea. Makes no difference. 

-ramon.

> On 17 Mar 2015, at 21:08, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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