Bug 281888 – sci-geosciences/bt747-1.68.22 fails to connect

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Juergen Rose 2009-08-18 10:57:49 UTC]

I have a Qstarz BT-Q1300, Firmware: AXN_1.0-B_1.3_C01(QST_Q1300) as shown by bt747-2.X.1438 (installed by unzipping BT747_2.X.1438_full.zip and changing several permissions and group memberships). After plugging in the gps logger udev creates /dev/ttyACM0 and I can connect through this device.

If I start as user root or ordinary user rose bt747, installed by portage from bt747-1.68.22.ebuild and try to connect to /dev/ttyACM0 I get the following message but no connection:
root@thinkpad:/usr/local/portage/sci-geosciences/bt747(40)# bt747 
Experimental:  JNI_OnLoad called.
Stable Library
=========================================
Native lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7
Java lib Version   = RXTX-2.1-7

gnu.io.NoSuchPortException
        at gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifier(CommPortIdentifier.java:218)
        at gps.connection.GPSRxTxPort.openPort(Unknown Source)
        at gps.connection.GPSrxtx.setFreeTextPortAndOpen(Unknown Source)
        at bt747.model.Controller.openFreeTextPort(Unknown Source)
        at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.openPort(Unknown Source)
        at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.btConnectActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.access$300(Unknown Source)
        at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main$6.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6263)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6028)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4574)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2475)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
15015 - 
Listing known ports:
15034 - SER  :/dev/ttyS0

User rose belongs to uucp group and the properties of /dev/ttyACM0 are:
root@thinkpad:/usr/local/(42)# ll /dev/ttyACM0 
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 166, 0 Aug 18 11:14 /dev/ttyACM0


Reproducible: Always




root@thinkpad:/usr/local/portage/sci-geosciences/bt747(8)# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1, 3.1.1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/dotnet /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo cardbus cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3490 dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx fuse galago garmin gd gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glib glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http httpd iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipod ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java java5 java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kexi keyring ladspa lame lapack laptop latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lua lzo lzw mad madwifi maildir mailwrapper math matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mtp mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numarray numeric obex objc ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl pipechan plotutils plugins png podcast policykit posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks pulseaudio python qemu qhull qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl server session slang slp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tntc truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi win32codecs wmf wxwidgets x264 x86 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 ac97_codec emu10k1 emu10k1x" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse                 synaptics               " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Tupone Alfredo 2009-09-09 07:46:42 UTC]

Have you tried to remove (or move) the file BT747SettingsJ2SE.pdb and then restart the bt747 application?
Before connecting, just select the generic linux/USB device

I have a Qstarz BT1000 and it works. My interface is /dev/ttyUSB0 but maybe is a specific things of my travel recorder. I have in the kernel the 
USB CP210x family of UART Bridge Controllers
selected as the lsusb -v declared the 
iProduct                2 CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller

[Comment 2 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2010-01-15 15:04:52 UTC]

i have the same problem. my gps device is also showing up as ttyACM0.
perhaps this is the rxtx library not accepting/knowing these device names...

[Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2010-01-15 18:40:21 UTC]

i have now patched rxtx and it does indeed fix the issue. will open a separate bug shortly.

[Comment 4 Tupone Alfredo 2010-02-01 08:49:00 UTC]

Created attachment 218058 [details, diff]
This patch should make bt747 use its own rxtx (maybe patched)

Please test if the ttyACM0 device is now discovered and that bt747 works

[Comment 5 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2010-02-12 10:13:04 UTC]

for many reasons we shouldnt use bundled libraries.
anyway - for me this is fixed by using the just committed 
dev-java/rxtx-2.1.7.2-r3

perhaps the bt747 ebuilds can be made to depend on this specific version of rxtx?

[Comment 6 Tupone Alfredo 2010-02-18 09:00:53 UTC]

I think I will leave the way it is, without the proposed patch and without any forced dependency on the new rxtx.
Wait for the new rxtx to go stable

[Comment 7 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2012-05-27 08:53:50 UTC]

This bug is really fixed, not later.

Current rxtx required is 2.2_pre2.