Nav spins ship in circles about space-nerds-in-space HOT 7 CLOSED

I have noticed that happening occasionally as well. Seems like it can usually be worked around by tapping on the direction keys, but not sure. BTW, I presume this was on master? Currently most work is happening on the branch called "more-coord-fixing" Do you know if you can reproduce it with that code? Just wondering because I haven't seen this bug in awhile (though I do not remember specifically fixing it.)

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I should add, I do not remember specifically fixing it, but the way the ship's heading works is completely different on the more-coord-fixing branch than on master, so it might well have been "fixed" (more like broken 2D code was replaced en masse by radically different 3D code.)

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Another thought. Are you using a joystick? If not, try removing /dev/input/js0 (it should get regenerated on reboot by udev) and see if that makes the problem go away. If you don't like the idea of removing /dev/input/js0, try renaming it. I'm thinking there's something about the joystick that may be causing this. BTW, were you by chance running in a virtual machine?

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This commit may fix the problem: 2d17f15

Note, that is on the more-coord-fixing branch. It's a trivial fix, so it will probably apply to master, but I'm looking to to a fast-forward merge to master at some point in the (I hope) not too distant future, so I'm not going to put that on master at this time.

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I did try tapping keys to see if that would stop it. I could hold it from spinning but soon as I let off it would star spinning again.

I did have a joystick plugged in. The joystick was centered. I'll give it a try with it plugged in and make sure it does it again. If so I'll unplug it and give it another go to see if it does it.

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These commits may be of interest as well.

a7a485e Revert broken joystick "fix"
45d3662 initialize automatic joystick
event structure variable

I'm not sure I have a fix (I can't repro the problem reliably) but I am
strongly suspecting it's something to do with the joystick.

-- steve

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:33 AM, kwadroke [email protected] wrote:

I did try tapping keys to see if that would stop it. I could hold it from
spinning but soon as I let off it would star spinning again.

I did have a joystick plugged in. The joystick was centered. I'll give it
a try with it plugged in and make sure it does it again. If so I'll unplug
it and give it another go to see if it does it.

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4896cfd fixes the joystick issue for me in VMware.

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