TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47
MSGID: 1:229/310 7a3604b5
REPLY: 1:105/10 63afccc6
TZUTC: -0500
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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