gpsmap 100% cpu load

[Koos van den Hout]

Binary package hint: kismet

When I try to process one or more .gps files with gpsmap to create a plot it opens the first .gps file and closes it and stays at 100% cpu load.

koos@greenblatt:/scratch/koos/kismet$ gpsmap -o wardrive-map-test.gif -S 0 -t /home/ritchie/logs/Ritchie-20110208-1.gps
Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/ap_manuf
Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/client_manuf
NOTICE: Processing gps file '/home/ritchie/logs/Ritchie-20110208-1.gps'

the gps file is not open in this state (according to lsof) and nothing happens except 100% cpu load.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 9 22:08:38 2011
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: kismet 2007-10-R1-2build1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kismet
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-27-server x86_64

[Nick Andrik (andrikos)]

@Koos:
Could you please check this bug against the most recent (2013.03.R1b-1) kismet package?

Thanks

[Koos van den Hout (koos-kzdoos)]

Quoting Nick Andrik who wrote on Mon 2013-04-29 at 17:43:

> Could you please check this bug against the most recent (2013.03.R1b-1) kismet package?

gpsmap has been removed from the kismet package, according to the README:

    Q: What happened to gpsmap?
    A: gpsmap was the old mapper code for Kismet. It stopped being useful a
       long time ago when the map sources it used went away. It's being
       replaced with a tile-based mapper, the beginnings of which are in
       the kismap/ directory in the source code. Kismap isn't quite
       finished for the RC1 release, but development continues on it and it
       will be available hopefully soon.

I have built a 64-bit version of gpsmap from kismet v2007.10.R1 sources and
that version works and generates maps.

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[Nick Andrik (andrikos)]

Upstream says "GPSMap is dead as dead can be and shouldn't be packaged by anything".

Do you think it makes sense to try to port it from the 2007 version?
If yes, we could try to come up with a patch that enables it (or just create a new package that builds the binary).
Unfortunately I don't have access to a GPS device in order to test it.
What do you think?

[Koos van den Hout (koos-kzdoos)]

Quoting Nick Andrik who wrote on Mon 2013-04-29 at 19:18:

> What you are describing seems like this bug, right?
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563117

No.

The gpsmap program is a separate program for plotting logfiles from kismet
onto maps.

> Maybe also remotely connected to this one, too:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468129

Yes. Most kismet parts are for the wardriving part, where it can run in a
headless mode.

> So, if I understand correctly there is no current support for a mapper in kismet 2013.

The README says kismap is a new development, but only very rudimental at
the moment.

> Do you think that the 2007 gpsmap could be ported to 2013?

I'm not sure: for as far as I am aware file formats have changed so a 2007
gpsmap may not work with logfiles generated by kismet from 2013.

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