Subj : Javascript TW2
To : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jan 06 2018 12:24 pm
Re: Javascript TW2
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Jan 06 2018 02:52 pm
> > > The last time I tried it, it ran for 5-10 minutes before
> > > giving the base64.h error. I later realized it had erased most of my
> > > executables from the sbbs3 directory tree. So I am a little leary to
> > > try it again. :)
>
> > > FYI, that was the first and only time I saw the base64.h error was when
> > > I ran "make RELEASE=1" without the "symlinks" included.
>
> > A "clean" fixed the base64.h error. It had nothing to do with including or
> > excluding the "symlinks" argument.
>
> Ok, so running without symlinks does cause all of the make steps listed in
> the wiki to complete with success, as does the update.js step. However,
> restarting synchronet after the compile does not work so good. It ends in
> a segmentation fault. I had the output captured but apparently it got
> deleted when I had to restore from backup.
The instructions for debugging crashes (e.g. segfaults) on *nix are here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:gdb
It'd be helpful if you had a core file from the crash.
> Just for fun, I did go back through the wiki and attempt to install all of
> the dependencies. apt-get reported that all were installed at at their
> newest versions - none missing.
>
> Also, one thing I did see synchronet complain about before abending was the
> SBBSCTRL not being set. I find this confusing as the script that starts
> synchronet contains these three lines, before sbbs is called:
>
> export HOME=/sbbs
> export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
> export SBBSNODE=/sbbs/node1
>
> ???
What's the rest of the script look like? Are you running sbbs daemonized or in
the foreground?
digital man
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