Subj : OpenXP 5.0.32 released
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Oct 06 2017 15:15:00

Hello Richard!

On 06.10.17 at 12:18, Richard Menedetter wrote to Martin Foster:
 RM> 06 Oct 2017 09:29, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:

 MF>>>> OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released
 RM>>> Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.
 RM>>> Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and
 RM>>> then I get a black screen. CTRL-C does nothing. If I kill it from
 RM>>> another terminal, and restart, it works again. Wehn I do a
 RM>>> netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((
 MF>> Sorry to hear this.

 RM> No problem ... I hope we sort it out.

I'm sure we will ;-)

 RM> Previous version works nicely!

Excellent :)

 MF>> I have it running on Mageia5(KDE) and Mint18.2(KDE) and I cannot
 MF>> reproduce  the problem on either distro. Can you please tell me which
 MF>> distro you're  running it on, thanks.

 RM> Good question ... Debian 8.9.

OK, thanks.

 MF>> Can you see anything in ~/.openxp/debuglog.txt which may indicate what
 MF>> the  problem might be?

 RM> A SH*Tload of these lines:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber114 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber121 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber128 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber135 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber142 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber149 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber156 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber163 uarchive:  ufile:
 RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber170 uarchive:  ufile:

Aha!

 RM> I polled with the old version ... all OK, polled with the new version and
 RM> I get a black screen and many of the lines above.

 MF>> Has OpenXP created an ERROR.TXT file in ~/.openxp
 MF>> If it has, can you see anything in there which might be useful?

 RM> That seems to be from a previous problem. (it is from 2016 ;))

 RM> But it seems the issue is in the nodelist updating (xpfidonl).

That's interesting because just after the previous version(5.0.31) was  
released, I found a major bug in the nodelist updater: if more than 5  
consecutive nodediffs needed to be applied, OpenXP would crash. I passed  
the bug report onto Gunter and he appeared to have fixed it, as I've had  
no further problems with nodelist updating since his fix. Perhaps this  
needs further investigation. Can you please post the output of the  
following commands:

ls -l ~/.openxp/fido

ls -l ~/.openxp/files/NODEDIFF.*

 RM> PS: Issue is on my virtual server, I think you might still have an
 RM> account there.

I remember you once offered to set me up as a Point but I don't remember  
us actually going ahead with it :)

Regards,
Martin

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