In many threads on the forum is says that you can start gpsd by typing in a terminal

/usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper

Nothing happens except this message:

sh: turning off NDELAY mode

When I grep for gps I get the follwing:

1154 root 4824 SW /usr/sbin/gpsdriver
1937 root 1892 SW grep gps

which confirms that the gpsd-helper is not started.

I'd really like to be able to start gpsd from within a shell script and log the output to a file, but that won't happen with the above problems.

I can verify that gpsd will run. If I start Map, and grep for gps, I now get
1159 root 4824 SW /usr/sbin/gpsdriver
1558 user 15092 SW /usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper
1565 user 2768 SW /usr/sbin/gpsd -n -N -F /tmp/.gpsd_ctrl_sock /dev/pgp

I would like to look at the logs but I can't find them. I am running Diablo on a N810. Any help would be appreciated.

Solved my own problem. For some reason it would not run under root. I started it under user, and everything worked fine.

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Hi Dan!

My name is Caio and i am from Brazil!

Sorry, my english is poor.

I execute your same steps and all works fine.

But, i have one question: when GPSD is up, the port 2947 should be opened ?
I try: # nmap localhost, but the port 2947 is not opened.

Can you help me ?

Best Regards!
Caio