From: nospam.Mike.Fenton@f310.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 30 Dec 2022, Rick Smith said the following...   
      
    RS> Greetings g00r00!   
    RS>   
    RS> Friday December 30 2022 21:36, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:   
    RS>   
    RS>  gr>  * Forwarded from area 'MYSTIC'   
    RS>  RS>> I decided a brand new VM with ubuntu, fresh install mystic and   
    RS>  RS>> worked as expected, copied over my working mystic bbs minus   
    RS>  RS>> executables and I get the errors from previous message.  So has   
    RS>  RS>> to be something in the working   
    RS>   
    RS>  gr> I would suggest that you do the install fresh as you mentioned, and   
    RS>  gr> then try copying over things slowly to see when it breaks.  It could   
    RS>  gr> be that there is a "Pi" executable still there.   
    RS>   
    RS>  gr> Another possible issue is that your paths in your old configuration d   
    RS>  gr> not much the paths in your new configuration.  If they are not   
    RS>  gr> identical, then you'd have to try to find all the places in the   
    RS>  gr> configuration and change them to the correct locations.   
    RS>   
    RS>  gr> Also do you see anything in the log files when you try to run it?  Or   
    RS>  gr> anything in the errors.log?   
    RS>   
    RS> I do not see anything in the logs.. The paths should be the same /mystic   
    RS> I can now get mystic -cfg to work (turned out I did have a couple pi   
    RS> executables remain qwkpoll and couple others, took care of that did a   
    RS> whole fresh install on a new ubuntu machine.   
    RS>   
    RS> now when I run ./mystic -l I simply get a blank screen that just says   
    RS> "busy" and have to ctrl c to get prompt back. ./mis starts and runs and   
    RS> appears fine.  Not sure what to check next to be honest.  I can start   
    RS> another vm and try again but I am pretty sure thats the definition of   
    RS> insanity! lol   
    RS>   
    RS> Thank you for your help   
      
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