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    From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to All on Sat Dec 13 19:53:18 2025
    Hi All,

    Moved my system from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04, the move was mostly uneventful. Only wrinkle I encountered so far has been with gnmsgid.

    On Ubuntu 22.04:

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    693e0026


    On Ubuntu 24.04:

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
    Aborted (core dumped)

    $ gnmsgid -seqdir /tmp
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
    Aborted (core dumped)

    $ gnmsgid -seqdir /tmp/
    693e043a

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq/"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    693e0470


    So it seems on Ubuntu 24.04 you need a trailing / when specifying seqdir either on the command line or via environment variable.


    Jay

    ... I used to be a personal trainer. Then I gave my too weak notice

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to Jay Harris on Sun Dec 14 21:58:06 2025
    Jay Harris wrote:

    Moved my system from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04, the move was mostly uneventful. Only wrinkle I encountered so far has been with gnmsgid.

    On Ubuntu 22.04:

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    693e0026


    On Ubuntu 24.04:

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
    Aborted (core dumped)

    $ gnmsgid -seqdir /tmp
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
    Aborted (core dumped)

    $ gnmsgid -seqdir /tmp/
    693e043a

    $ SEQDIR="/home/ubuntu/fido/seq/"
    $ export SEQDIR
    $ gnmsgid
    693e0470


    So it seems on Ubuntu 24.04 you need a trailing / when specifying seqdir either on the command line or via environment variable.

    Confirmed. A fresh husky installation just for testing:

    tommi@wox:~/husky$ gnmsgid -seqdir .
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
    Aborted (core dumped)
    tommi@wox:~/husky$ gnmsgid -seqdir ./
    693f15cb

    'Tommi

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