Gpsd device-hook cant enable GPS

Describe your issue

What's the expected behaviour?

Having gpsd running, starting a gps client, gpsd should trigger /etc/gpsd/device-hook to enable the GPS

What's the current behaviour?

The cgps and other gps client are freezed up as the device is never enabled

Here some gpsd logs in verbose mode

gpsd:INFO: running /etc/gpsd/device-hook /dev/EG25.NMEA ACTIVATE
fopen(/dev/EG25.AT) failed: Resource busy
gpsd:INFO: /etc/gpsd/device-hook returned 1

How to reproduce your issue?

What device are you using?

Pinephone + sxmo updated

Having gpsd and gpsd_pinephone service running

Run cgps

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

• edge (master branch)
• stable (v20.05 branch)

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Phone environments

• Phosh
• Plasma Mobile
• Sxmo

Other

• No environment
• GNOME
• KDE Plasma
• Kodi
• MATE
• Shelli
• Sway
• Weston
• Xfce4
• fbkeyboard
• i3wm

How did you get postmarketOS image?

• from https://images.postmarketos.org
• I built it using pmbootstrap
• It was preinstalled on my device
• From sxmo images then kept update

What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

Additional information

added device-pine64-pinephone type::bug labels

@z3ntu You seems to be the person who packaged this. I think this issues was not present in the first place as different peoples related that it worked. Do you have an idea about this ?

By Willow on 2021-03-30T09:39:56

Not sure, it seems that something is keeping the serial device open. Maybe check lsof what's keeping it open? You can also try manually attaching to the device and enabling GPS that way.

By Luca Weiss on 2021-04-04T18:50:18

I actually can manually toggle the gps with sudo /etc/gpsd/device-hook "" ACTIVATE and sudo /etc/gpsd/device-hook "" DEACTIVATE.

I think that means the AT file is opened by gpsd itself in the device-hook context

By Willow on 2021-04-05T06:35:20

I also got no information about the openned at file as the only lsof I got in the device-hook context is :

13660   /bin/busybox    /dev/pts/3
13660   /bin/busybox    /home/stacy/lsof
13660   /bin/busybox    /dev/pts/3
13660   /bin/busybox    socket:[371603]
13660   /bin/busybox    socket:[371604]
13660   /bin/busybox    socket:[371605]
13660   /bin/busybox    socket:[371770]
13660   /bin/busybox    /etc/gpsd/device-hook
13660   /bin/busybox    /dev/pts/3

I ran gpsd manually, so that explain the /dev/pts/3 files

By Willow on 2021-04-05T06:36:50

mentioned in issue #1298 (closed)

By Alistair Francis on 2021-11-11T12:34:36

Closing issue due to inactivity.

By Robert Eckelmann on 2024-08-14T14:17:34

closed