Re: Unexpected logging from gpsd

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Mick!

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:25:12 +0100
Mick Durkin <mickdurkinuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> I removed gpsd with "scons uninstall" and then deleted the entire
> gpsd directory.

That will not remove any gpsd installed another way.  That needs manual
chacking.  Can you look under /lib* and /usr/lib* for any leftover
gpsd libs?  And /usr/include for leftover header files?

> I then pulled a fresh copy from the repository and did a full "scons
> && scons check && scons udev-install". This went without any problems
> that I could see apart from some warnings about missing stuff that
> seems to be related to graphical things (this is a text-only server).

I note this;
$ cd gpsdscons && scons check && scons udev-install

Installing into /etc usually requires you do it as root.  In your case
it still worked:

    mkdir -p /lib/udev/rules.d
    cp /home/mick.durkin/gpsd/gpsd-3.23.2~dev/gpsd.rules 
/lib/udev/rules.d/25-gpsd.rules

> I then started gpsd with my normal "gpsd -n /dev/ttyS0" and ran the
> gpsdebuginfo script, logging these steps to the attached
> "gpsdebuginfo.log".

Odd, you are on Intel, but a Raspberry Pi option got turned on:

    # Magic Hat enabled.

But, unrelated.

> The bottom of this log also includes a couple of short snapshots of
> "tail -10 /var/log/messages" which show the output I originally found
> still appearing.

Yeah, weird.  Just the messages from the PPS thread.  Never seen/heard
anything like that.

> Below you said "All the time?  I thought you said only for PPS
> stuff?", what I meant was that I see these PPS logs all the time. I
> do not see any output from the non-thread parts of gpsd.

Yeah, I see that now.  And "gpsd -n /dev/ttyS0" is running, just as
you said.

> The thread specific output is something I have not worked with as
> either it is more recent than the versions of gpsd I have worked with
> or it never came to my attention before.

It is at least 15 years old.  I still find corners of the code that I
did not know existed.

> I certainly never set
> anything deliberately to trigger these thread related logs.

Nor is there anything that you can do to only trigger PPS logs.  OTOH,
something in your syslog rules could be selecting just the PPS stuff.
Maybe run "gpsd -nN /dev/ttyS0" to rul that out.

> If there is any other information or logs I can supply, please let me
> know.

Uh, oh.  Looking at ppsthread_hook() and my recent changes, it looks
like I moved a redundant check out of gpsd_vlog(), only it was not
redundant.  Not sure why I can't duplicate your problem, but I see
my mistake.

Fix pushed to git head, thanks for your help, please test.

RGDS
GARY
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