Re: [gpsd-users] Unrecognized request '?POLL'

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andrew Perrin <address@hidden>:
> Good afternoon - returning to using gpsd after several months, and the perl 
> script I had working before is no longer working.  The script uses Net::GPSD3 
> to poll the gpsd daemon, running under linux. However the script just hangs, 
> and the logfile shows:
> 
> gpsd: ERROR: ERROR response: {"class":"ERROR","message":"Unrecognized request 
> '?POLL'"}\x0d\x0a
> 
> The same thing happens using the poll example script from the perl Net::GPSD3 
> package. However it works fine using the handler example script, and the test 
> clients from gpsd work fine.
> 
> My best guess is therefore that the poll() method is broken for some reason. 
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> 
> System is debian linux (testing), kernel 3.2.0, gpsd version 3.4-2.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 

You should make sure you're actually running with the right GPSD binary
rather than some stale version off in a corner.  POLL is working here, I
just tested it - and that response looks like it's from an old version
of the daeon that lacks POLL support. 
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>