Hi mate,

I just wanted to bring to your attention some weird behaviour I have seen today.

I have been playing with uploading files from my C-64 onto my BBS (Logged in via port 64000 8-) and it works great, but after I successfully upload the file, If I List the files in the Directory and then attempt (E) to view Extended info, the BBS drops the connections and the terminal server or maybe subs itself appears to recycle!

I realise that the file probably doesn't have any Extended Info yet, but surely it should cause a crash and a dropped connection like that? should it?

I am on 3.19c running on x86_64 Debian 11 Linux. 8-)

Maybe its a bug?

Re: Strange Behaviour
By: Geo to Digital Man on Sun Jan 16 2022 11:23 am

Hi mate,

I just wanted to bring to your attention some weird behaviour I have seen today.

I have been playing with uploading files from my C-64 onto my BBS (Logged in via port 64000 8-) and it works great, but after I successfully upload the file, If I List the files in the Directory and then attempt (E) to view Extended info, the BBS drops the connections and the terminal server or maybe subs itself appears to recycle!

I realise that the file probably doesn't have any Extended Info yet, but surely it should cause a crash and a dropped connection like that? should it?

I am on 3.19c running on x86_64 Debian 11 Linux. 8-)

Maybe its a bug?

Sounds like a bug. I totally agree: it shouldn't crash. A gdb-backtrace would be very helpful in root-causing the issue: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:gdb

but I'll also see if I can reproduce the problem here.

Re: Strange Behaviour
By: Digital Man to Geo on Sat Jan 15 2022 05:25 pm

No luck reproducing here. Maybe you could upload the file to cvs.synchro.net (also a Debian Linux system)?
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digital man (rob)

Synchronet "Real Fact" #55:
Synchronet Terminal Server introduced RLogin support w/v3.00c (2000)
Norco, CA WX: 65.4°F, 25.0% humidity, 3 mph S wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

Hi Rob,

Re: Strange Behaviour
By: Digital Man to Geo on Sat Jan 15 2022 05:25 pm

No luck reproducing here. Maybe you could upload the file to cvs.synchro.net (also a Debian Linux system)?
--
digital man (rob)

Synchronet "Real Fact" #55:
Synchronet Terminal Server introduced RLogin support w/v3.00c (2000) Norco, CA WX: 65.4°F, 25.0% humidity, 3 mph S wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

Hi Rob,

Hmm, Thats a worry then.
I'll look up the gdb info.

In the meantime, I have logged back in to the bbs and the problem is not limited to the few C-64 files I uploaded. Seems if I ask for extended info on any of the files, and use the A,B,C,D style shortcut I get the same result, connection dropped and the
terminal sbbs server appears to reload. I haven't tried referring to the file by full name yet.

I'll try that a bit later and look at gdb etc tomorrow

Hi Rob,

Im using the Renegade Clone command shell.

Maybe I'll try switching back to the default and see what happens.

Sorry I haven't had more time to debug this, started back at work this week and its a bit busy catching up 8-)