/Description of problem: when you boot gpsdrive i cannot find my gps in gpsdrive i opened the rpm for gpsd and found that gpsd is in sbin and not bin gpsd cannot be found in /usr/bin/ it is in /usr/sbin/ version Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot up gpsdrive in terminal 2. start it and it will not find the gps 3.if you enter the command "cp /usr/sbin/gpsd /usr/bin/" then retry it will find the gps and work normaly Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: could somebody fix the gpsd rpm in an update from where the rpm will write to gpsd and load into /usr/bin/ and not /usr/sbin/
i left out version gpsd 2.34 gpsdrive 1.525
Reassigning to gpsdrive component. gpsd is installed in its upstream location. gpsdrive looks in the wrong location due to its bundling of gpsd. gpsd is now an active project and should no longer be bundled with gpsdrive; gpsdrive should respect gpsd's installation location and handle it in its configure script.
Version 1.525? Where did you get this version? gpsdrive in fedora is version 2.09. What is the output of 'rpm -q gpsdrive' and 'gpsdrive -v' ? gspdrive in fedora looks in the right place and doesn't ship it's own gpsd. However, I did just spot an issue with how it calls gpsd... it tries to pass a '-p' argument to it. I will get that fixed up. However, that doesn't seem to be what the orig poster is reporting.
ok, I found time to look further into this... gpsdrive calls gpsd with 'gpsd', ie, no path at all, so if /usr/sbin/ is in your path it would call the right thing. However, it calls it with all sorts of incorrect arguments, so I have no idea how it worked for the orig poster. Then, if gpsd was started by hotplug (ie, it's a usb device), gpsdrive can't kill or start it, which is ok I guess. In any case I patched things up as best I could. There should be an update out before too long. You are welcome to also grab the package from the buildsystem and try it out: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=558911
gpsdrive-2.09-5.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
gpsdrive-2.09-5.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7
sorry i coulnt reply but i am glad this issue is resolved and thank you for helping me
what i don't understand is why /usr/sbin and not /usr/bin is it because it is a deamon, because in Debian or other Linux os they have it from where you can access the bin from a command prompt
Well, in the past, gpsd would be a command that only the root user would run, as regular users wouldn't have the ability to read/write to serial devices. Since we now can allow local users to do that it's not as important. In any case, hopefully the fix will work for you. ;)
gpsdrive-2.09-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gpsdrive'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-3062
gpsdrive-2.09-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
gpsdrive-2.09-5.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This update has been pushed out, I'm going to go ahead and close this now. Feel free to re-open or file a new bug if you spot anything further.
gpsdrive-2.09-6.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gpsdrive-2.09-6.fc9
gpsdrive-2.09-6.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.