[gpsd-users] Cannot launch gpsd from terminal on Fedora 29

[Ellon Paiva]

Hi,

I'm trying to run gpsd from a terminal on my machine but no matter what I do gpsd gives me no output whatsoever (standard or error). I tried:

gpsd -V
gpsd -V -N
gpsd -D 2 -N -V
gpsd -D 2 -n -N tcp://localhost:4006

In all these commands gpsd silently returns, and there's no gpsd running on the background neither.

Strangely, if I launch it using systemctl I'm able to see some output on my xjournal. And if I try with valgrind I have some terminal output as well:

[mellon@mellon-hp ~]$ gpsd -V # This will generate no output
[mellon@mellon-hp ~]$ valgrind gpsd -V # Output will be in the middle of valgrind messages
==30126== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==30126== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==30126== Using Valgrind-3.15.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==30126== Command: gpsd -V
==30126==
gpsd: 3.17 (revision 3.17)
==30126==
==30126== HEAP SUMMARY:
==30126==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==30126==   total heap usage: 3 allocs, 3 frees, 1,077 bytes allocated
==30126==
==30126== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==30126==
==30126== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==30126== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

I tried gpsd -V from the terminal into machine running Gentoo Linux and I did get an output there. The other commands also gave me terminal outputs.

For info, I'm using Fedora 29 with gpsd installed from dnf:

[mellon@mellon-hp ~]$ uname -a
Linux mellon-hp 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Oct 20 23:24:08 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[mellon@mellon-hp ~]$ dnf list --installed | grep gpsd
gpsd.x86_64                                       3.17-6.fc29                            @updates                 
gpsd-clients.x86_64                               3.17-6.fc29                            @updates                 
gpsd-libs.x86_64                                  3.17-6.fc29                            @updates                 
python3-gpsd.x86_64                               3.17-6.fc29                            @updates

Does someone know what would be the problem here?

Best,

Ellon