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FS#17697 - [gpsdrive] does not start

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Dominik (Dominik) - Sunday, 03 January 2010, 14:54 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Wednesday, 06 January 2010, 00:41 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

gpsdrive could not start because of the missing geoinfo.db file.

As in this thread (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78741) described gpsdrive could not start if the geoinfo.db file is missing.
The file could be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsdrive/files/. It is included in openstreetmap-map-icons-minimal.tar.gz.

For a test I downloaded the tar.gz, exctract the file and put geoinfo.db to the right destination in /usr/share/gpsdrive/. Now gpsdrive could start without problems. Please add the missing file to the gpsdrive package.


Additional info:

* gpsdrive 2.10pre7-5


Steps to reproduce:

Fresh gpsdrive package installed with pacman.

$ gpsdrive
Connection to GPS Daemon on 127.0.0.1:2947 established.
DB: Error while opening /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db: unable to open database file
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Wednesday, 06 January 2010, 00:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dominik (Dominik) - Monday, 04 January 2010, 18:26 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
I tested the new package build (gpsdrive 2.10pre7-6).

Just the information "Don't forget to generate geoinfo.db with geoinfo.pl script" doesn't made gpsdrive usable for me out of the box because I don't know what to do with the script.

geoinfo.pl has no man page and the geoinfo.pl --help option isn't the best information about the usage to get gpsdrive work for a normal user.

Why don't check and maybe touch /usr/share/gpsdrive.db if it is missing.

A simple touch /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db as root helped to start gpsdrive as normal user in my case.

Just my suggestion about the package. If I am wrong don't mind my request to re-open.
Comment by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Wednesday, 06 January 2010, 00:41 GMT
My fault, I forgot to include gpsdrive.db in the update.

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