Re: [gpsd-dev] WG: gpsmon stop after 16 seconds...

[address@hidden]

Hello,

as nmea2000 seems to be O.K. at the moment, i do not want to stop the release.

As the firmware bug, that triggers to problem below is fixed, i had to setup a 
test to reproduce the problem.
I come with the problem again, as it think, that it may be related to the OS X 
problem 

 I hope, that it works with my serial player and two  ftdi adapters connected, 
on spitting out a NMEA0183 datastream with a few errors and a fixed baudrate, 
the other trying to read the datastream with gpsd/gpsmon.


Reinhard

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Betreff: Re: WG: [gpsd-dev] gpsmon stop after 16 seconds...
Datum: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:42:14 +0100
Von: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
An: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>

address@hidden <address@hidden>:
> But there may be still a bug in the packet parser of gpsd, as i expect, that 
> "badcounter" will be reset with the reception of a good sentence, or, 
> decremented.
> 
> The current behavior seem to accumulate the errors forever, and in my opinion 
> this is a smoking gun. If there is a connection to a device  with some errors 
> from time to time, it will be forced into reconfiguration after several hours 
> or days.
> 
> And the question is still open, why gpsmon is not able to resync, but stops 
> after some time with a device read error.

I don't have a test load that reproduces this behavior, or I'd have fixed it.

Can you bisect to identify when this began to happen?
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