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Package: svxlink-server
Version: 24.02-2~bpo12+1
Severity: important
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Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?
On an otherwise correct installation, using 'svxlink', the soundcard was 'busy'and could not be used for this
essential part of the application. Investigation showed that remotetrx.service had been enabled
and started, taking control ahead of the major application.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Stopping and killing the remotetrx.service
* What was the outcome of this action?
svxlink was able to access the usb soundcard as required.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
In the packages there are three independent but connected applications, svxlink, svxreflector and
remotetrx, in the order of their priority. remotetrx is rarely used if at all, and svxreflector only
on demand. svxlink.service should be enabled and started, as it was.
Whilst Debian may insist that installed .service application s be run, in this case svxreflector.service
was not enabled and started, which is the correct setting, but remotetrx a very little used application
was. Remotetrx was started ahead of svxlink, which is not the desired sequence.

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-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
Architecture: armv7l

Kernel: Linux 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-v7 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages svxlink-server depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libasyncaudio1.6 24.02-2~bpo12+1
ii libasynccore1.6 24.02-2~bpo12+1
ii libasynccpp1.6 24.02-2~bpo12+1
ii libc6 2.36-9+rpt2+deb12u7
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.88.1-10+rpi1+deb12u5
ii libecholib1.3 24.02-2~bpo12+1
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14+rpi1
ii libgcrypt20 1.10.1-3
ii libgpiod2 1.6.3-1+rpi1+b2
ii libgsm1 1.0.22-1
ii libjsoncpp25 1.9.5-4
ii libpopt0 1.19+dfsg-1
ii librtlsdr0 0.6.0-4
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14+rpi1
ii libtcl8.6 8.6.13+dfsg-2
ii svxlink-gpio 24.02-2~bpo12+1

Versions of packages svxlink-server recommends:
ii remotetrx 24.02-2~bpo12+1
ii svxlink-calibration-tools 24.02-2~bpo12+1

svxlink-server suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/svxlink changed [not included]
/etc/svxlink/node_info.json changed [not included]
/etc/svxlink/svxlink.conf changed [not included] /etc/svxlink/svxlink.d/ModuleMetarInfo.conf changed [not included]

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XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From: [email protected]

Hello Chris,

are you asking that the 3 packages (svxlink, svxreflector, remotetrx)
be installed
and only svxlink be enabled?

I'd rather not enable any of those services automatically because the
result is the same, that is, if the system has only one audio card and
a user installs the task hamradio-all, then no other software can use
the audio, which IMHO is unexpected.

We discussed the audio issue in the thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2024/03/msg00035.html
but we didn't come to a decision

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73 de IU5HKX Daniele

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XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From: [email protected]

As I am the expert in the package, if only the svxlink is enabled but not started, then that would be the preferable option.
But as it stands at the moment remotetrx is enabled and started ahead of svxlink which is also enabled and started.
This is contrary to what you are saying. So that has to be addressed.
In my 15 years of using svxlink, I have encountered only one remotetrx and
I installed that, and just a few svxreflectors. The vast majority of
installs will be as svxlink. I am running the current UK portal here svxportal-uk.ddns.net:81.
So if a decision is to be made then do not enable any of the three services. There is a further issue, that the modulemetarinfo.conf in the
svxlink-server is not current with the GitHub at SM0SVX... The variable
LINK= is not yet updated.
Best wishes, thank you for your help
Chris
G4NAB

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, 11:49 Daniele Forsi, <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Chris,

are you asking that the 3 packages (svxlink, svxreflector, remotetrx)
be installed
and only svxlink be enabled?

I'd rather not enable any of those services automatically because the
result is the same, that is, if the system has only one audio card and
a user installs the task hamradio-all, then no other software can use
the audio, which IMHO is unexpected.

We discussed the audio issue in the thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2024/03/msg00035.html
but we didn't come to a decision

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73 de IU5HKX Daniele

<p dir="ltr">As I am the expert in the package, if only the svxlink is enabled but not started, then that would be the preferable option. <br>
But as it stands at the moment remotetrx is enabled and started ahead of svxlink which is also enabled and started. <br>
This is contrary to what you are saying. So that has to be addressed.<br>
In my 15 years of using svxlink, I have encountered only one remotetrx and I installed that, and just a few svxreflectors. The vast majority of installs will be as svxlink. I am running the current UK portal here <a href="http://svxportal-uk.ddns.net:81">
svxportal-uk.ddns.net:81</a>.<br>
So if a decision is to be made then do not enable any of the three services.<br>
There is a further issue, that the modulemetarinfo.conf in the svxlink-server is not current with the GitHub at SM0SVX... The variable LINK= is not yet updated. <br>
Best wishes, thank you for your help <br>
Chris<br>
G4NAB </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, 11:49 Daniele Forsi, &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:
1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Chris,<br>

are you asking that the 3 packages (svxlink, svxreflector, remotetrx)<br>
be installed<br>
and only svxlink be enabled?<br>

I&#39;d rather not enable any of those services automatically because the<br> result is the same, that is, if the system has only one audio card and<br>
a user installs the task hamradio-all, then no other software can use<br>
the audio, which IMHO is unexpected.<br>

We discussed the audio issue in the thread<br>
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2024/03/msg00035.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2024/03/msg00035.html</a><br>
but we didn&#39;t come to a decision<br>

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73 de IU5HKX Daniele<br>
</blockquote></div>

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