#526561 libgps17 v 2.38 breaks BU-353 (Sirf) GPS

Package:
src:gpsd
Source:
gpsd
Submitter:
Steve Stancliff
Date:
2015-06-16 00:00:15 UTC
Severity:
normal
#526561#5
Date:
2009-05-01 21:56:10 UTC
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I am using the BU-353 USB GPS units on numerous machines of various architectures.  The specific machine that I have debugged this on is an armel.   After an upgrade to 2.38 this GPS stopped working.

The symptom is no output from GPSD, either using one of the supplied client programs, or via telnet.  Downgrading the gpsd package to 2.37 did not fix the problem.  I then downgraded libgps17 to 2.37 and now all is back to normal.
Before downgrading to 2.37 I tried upgrading to 2.39, since the gpsd changelogs mention breakage in 2.38.  2.39 acted the same as 2.38 for me.

Running gpsd in foreground mode with debug level=2 did not reveal anything useful - 2.37 and 2.38 debug messages look about the same.
#526561#10
Date:
2009-05-01 22:13:06 UTC
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Steve Stancliff wrote:

Please give gpsd 2.39 (still in unstable, not migrated yet as we have a library
transition) a try and check if the problem still exists there.

Thanks,

Bernd