Greetings All!

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released and is available for download from the following URLs .....

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/

http://openxp.fastmail.uk/

OpenXP is an all-in-one FidoNet Point system, email client and
newsgroup client for the Windows/Linux console.

Windows version is available as a 32-Bit ZIP package.

Linux version is available as a 32-Bit ZIP or RPM package, or as a
64-Bit ZIP or RPM package.

Pascal source code is also available.

Regards,
Martin

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Hi Martin!

30 Sep 2017 12:50, from Martin Foster -> All:

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released

Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.

Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and then I get a black screen.
CTRL-C does nothing.
If I kill it from another terminal, and restart, it works again.
Wehn I do a netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((

CU, Ricsi

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Hi Martin!

30 Sep 2017 12:50, from Martin Foster -> All:

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released

Downgraded to 5.0.31 and all seems fine again.

CU, Ricsi

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Hello Richard!

On 05.10.17 at 20:29, Richard Menedetter wrote to Martin Foster:

30 Sep 2017 12:50, from Martin Foster -> All:

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released

Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.

Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and then I get
a black screen. CTRL-C does nothing.
If I kill it from another terminal, and restart, it works again.
Wehn I do a netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((

Sorry to hear this.

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

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

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

Regards,
Martin

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Hi Martin!

06 Oct 2017 09:29, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released

Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.
Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and
then I get a black screen. CTRL-C does nothing. If I kill it from
another terminal, and restart, it works again. Wehn I do a
netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((

Sorry to hear this.

No problem ... I hope we sort it out.
Previous version works nicely!

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

Good question ... Debian 8.9.

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

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

I polled with the old version ... all OK, polled with the new version and I get

a black screen and many of the lines above.

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

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

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

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

CU, Ricsi

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Hello Richard!

On 06.10.17 at 12:18, Richard Menedetter wrote to Martin Foster:

06 Oct 2017 09:29, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:

OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released

Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.
Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and
then I get a black screen. CTRL-C does nothing. If I kill it from
another terminal, and restart, it works again. Wehn I do a
netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((

Sorry to hear this.

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

I'm sure we will ;-)

Previous version works nicely!

Excellent :)

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

Good question ... Debian 8.9.

OK, thanks.

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

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

Aha!

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

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

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

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.*

PS: Issue is on my virtual server, I think you might still have an
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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Hi Martin!

06 Oct 2017 15:15, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:

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.*

I do not use nodediff.
I download complete nodelist and z2point lists.

ls -l ~/.openxp/fido
total 1236
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 731188 Dec 2 2016 Z2PNT.337
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 223326 Dec 8 2016 nodelist.344
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78684 Dec 8 2016 nodelist.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 Dec 8 2016 nodelst.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 221184 Dec 8 2016 nodeuser.idx

ls -l ~/.openxp/files/
total 7476
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 551 Dec 8 2016 FILES
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79784 Jan 6 2017 NODELIST.Z06
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65496 May 1 13:01 NODELIST.Z11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79423 Mar 4 2017 NODELIST.Z13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65507 May 1 13:01 NODELIST.Z18
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79378 Mar 4 2017 NODELIST.Z20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65538 May 1 13:01 NODELIST.Z25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65538 May 2 10:12 NODELIST.Z25.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65538 May 4 22:17 NODELIST.Z25.2
................

I deleted all files in the files dir (many TICs and nodelists and pointlists). I copied the latest nodelist and pointlist into fido.

When I started it complained about not finding the lists.
When I polled, it still shows the exact same behaviour:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber262 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber269 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber276 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber283 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber290 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber297 uarchive: ufile:
2017-10-06 16:45:59 xpfidonl: NextNumber304 uarchive: ufile:

I think we are circling in the issue ;))

CU, Ricsi

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Hello Richard!

On 06.10.17 at 16:50, Richard Menedetter wrote to Martin Foster:

[..]

I think we are circling in the issue ;))

I've taken this to netmail(routed), hope you don't mind :)

Regards,
Martin

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Hi Martin!

07 Oct 2017 10:46, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:

[..]

I think we are circling in the issue ;))

I've taken this to netmail(routed), hope you don't mind :)

Not at all.
Received it, will reply later.

Thanx!

CU, Ricsi

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