Subj : KIA BBS issues
To   : Digital Man
From : Sniper
Date : Sun Sep 14 2025 09:22:41

  Re: KIA BBS issues
  By: Digital Man to Sniper on Sat Sep 13 2025 02:48 pm

 >   Re: KIA BBS issues
 >   By: Sniper to All on Fri Sep 12 2025 11:24 pm
 > 
 >  > Hello all,  its been a minute.
 > 
 > Welcome back!
 > 
 >  > So I've finally had some time to try to get
 >  > the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to
 >  > restore the old BBS.  I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS
 >  > device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16.
 >  > Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to
 >  > retire, so I left it sit for a bit.  So I'm back...  I am attempting to
 >  > upgrade it.  I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster
 >  > NAS.  I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of
 >  > course.  I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested.  Then updat
 >  > SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19.  At this point, I believe everything is
 >  > working.  I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. 
 >  > I think I got all that working.  So that is where I am at the moment.  I 
 >  > a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to
 >  > 3.20.  It failed...  Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset
 >  > everything to an initial install.
 > 
 > Sounds like you didn't run 'jsexec update'. The upgrade archive contains
 > instructions (README.TXT).

Ok, I will rerun it.  To expand.  I attempted this multiple times, initially, I
tried to do the upgrade directly to 3.20 directly as was noted in the
documentation.  That failed badly, wouldn't load after the upgrade, and yes, I
ran the jsexec update.  So on the next attempt, I decided to do each update
indivudually, 17, 18, 19 and 20.  After 3.20 upgrade, and doing the jsexec
update, the system reverted to new install.  I verified each upgrade,  17,
system was working, doors weren't.  Next 18, after the update, the system
worked, not the doors, and 19 worked, and the doors worked.  When I did 3.20,
the system was destroyed, and was walking me through the initial install, as I
stated.  Currently, I did the individual upgrades again, and stopped this time
at 3.19, which is what I'm currently running. However I'm getting the error
mentioned, not finding the sbbs.ini.  So I will attempt a rerun of the jsexec
update, and see if that fixes it.  I'll let you know in a few.  :)


Sniper

Killed In Action BBS, telnet://kiabbs.org

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