Subj : ruling out
To : Rick Smith
From : Mike Fenton
Date : Sat Dec 31 2022 05:35 am
On 30 Dec 2022, Rick Smith said the following...
RS> Greetings g00r00!
RS>
RS> Friday December 30 2022 21:36, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:
RS>
RS> gr> * Forwarded from area 'MYSTIC'
RS> RS>> I decided a brand new VM with ubuntu, fresh install mystic and
RS> RS>> worked as expected, copied over my working mystic bbs minus
RS> RS>> executables and I get the errors from previous message. So has
RS> RS>> to be something in the working
RS>
RS> gr> I would suggest that you do the install fresh as you mentioned, and
RS> gr> then try copying over things slowly to see when it breaks. It could
RS> gr> be that there is a "Pi" executable still there.
RS>
RS> gr> Another possible issue is that your paths in your old configuration d
RS> gr> not much the paths in your new configuration. If they are not
RS> gr> identical, then you'd have to try to find all the places in the
RS> gr> configuration and change them to the correct locations.
RS>
RS> gr> Also do you see anything in the log files when you try to run it? Or
RS> gr> anything in the errors.log?
RS>
RS> I do not see anything in the logs.. The paths should be the same /mystic
RS> I can now get mystic -cfg to work (turned out I did have a couple pi
RS> executables remain qwkpoll and couple others, took care of that did a
RS> whole fresh install on a new ubuntu machine.
RS>
RS> now when I run ./mystic -l I simply get a blank screen that just says
RS> "busy" and have to ctrl c to get prompt back. ./mis starts and runs and
RS> appears fine. Not sure what to check next to be honest. I can start
RS> another vm and try again but I am pretty sure thats the definition of
RS> insanity! lol
RS>
RS> Thank you for your help
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