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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