Hi DM,

Today I logged into my BBS via telnet and ran the remote SCFG. I went to the External Programs section and then tried to go in to the External Editors section, but it quit back to the external programs menu. I don't see any errors in the BBS log. But I wanted to let you know of this issue.

Nightfox

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Apr 16 2019 12:34 pm

Hi DM,

Today I logged into my BBS via telnet and ran the remote SCFG. I went to the External Programs section and then tried to go in to the External Editors section, but it quit back to the external programs menu. I don't see any errors in the BBS log. But I wanted to let you know of this issue.

I tried and wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Are you only having this problem when trying to run scfg remotely? The Windows build of scfg? Can you still reproduce the problem?

digital man

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 16 2019 08:52 pm

I tried and wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Are you only having this problem when trying to run scfg remotely? The Windows build of scfg? Can you still reproduce the problem?

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows build. I'm using the build from April 14th.

Nightfox

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Apr 16 2019 09:27 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 16 2019 08:52 pm

I tried and wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Are you only having this problem when trying to run scfg remotely? The Windows build of scfg? Can you still reproduce the problem?

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows build.
I'm using the build from April 14th.

And it's still happening?

Does it happen if you run "scfg -ix" instead of ANSI mode? I have seen crashes in ANSI mode.

digital man

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 16 2019 10:56 pm

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows
build. I'm using the build from April 14th.

And it's still happening?

I updated to today's build (April 17), and it's still happening.

Does it happen if you run "scfg -ix" instead of ANSI mode? I have seen crashes in ANSI mode.

I tried using -ix instead of -iA, and it said the CIOLIB library failed to initialize, and it exited with a code of -1.

Nightfox

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 16 2019 10:56 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting

I tried and wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Are you only
having this problem when trying to run scfg remotely? The Windows
build of scfg? Can you still reproduce the problem?

And it's still happening?
Does it happen if you run "scfg -ix" instead of ANSI mode? I have seen crashes in ANSI mode.

If it helps any, I can verify I don't have this issue with my "nix" version of Synchronet.

Heliarc

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Apr 17 2019 01:41 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 16 2019 10:56 pm

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows
build. I'm using the build from April 14th.

And it's still happening?

I updated to today's build (April 17), and it's still happening.

Does it happen if you run "scfg -ix" instead of ANSI mode? I have seen crashes in ANSI mode.

I tried using -ix instead of -iA, and it said the CIOLIB library failed to initialize, and it exited with a code of -1.

My mistake, -ix is only supported on *nix. Try '-id' instead.

digital man

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 03:17 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows
build. I'm using the build from April 14th.

My mistake, -ix is only supported on *nix. Try '-id' instead.

With -id, it doesn't exit out when going into the external editor configurations like it does in ANSI mode.

Nightfox

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Apr 22 2019 04:23 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 03:17 pm

Re: Remote SCFG exiting

Yes, it's only when I try to run scfg remotely. It's the Windows
build. I'm using the build from April 14th.

My mistake, -ix is only supported on *nix. Try '-id' instead.

With -id, it doesn't exit out when going into the external editor configurations like it does in ANSI mode.

It is weird that it only has an issue in ANSI mode. I suspect it's a bug somewhere in the ciolib's ANSI stuff which is causing an exception. I'll have to run it under a debugger in ANSI mode and see if I can catch any exceptions. If you have Visual Studio installed, you might be able to do the same and if you could provide a backtrace, that'd be a huge time saver.

digital man

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 05:36 pm

It is weird that it only has an issue in ANSI mode. I suspect it's a bug somewhere in the ciolib's ANSI stuff which is causing an exception. I'll have to run it under a debugger in ANSI mode and see if I can catch any exceptions. If you have Visual Studio installed, you might be able to do the same and if you could provide a backtrace, that'd be a huge time saver.

I'll have to see if I can get Synchronet built in debug mode on my system so I can do that. The wiki says the components for Windows are mostly built with Visual Studio Express 2013 - Do you think it would be okay to use a later version?

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Apr 23 2019 08:57 am

Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 05:36 pm

It is weird that it only has an issue in ANSI mode. I suspect it's a bug somewhere in the ciolib's ANSI stuff which is causing an exception. I'll have to run it under a debugger in ANSI mode and see if I can catch any exceptions. If you have Visual Studio installed, you might be able to do the same and if you could provide a backtrace, that'd be a huge time saver.

I'll have to see if I can get Synchronet built in debug mode on my system so I can do that. The wiki says the components for Windows are mostly built with Visual Studio Express 2013 - Do you think it would be okay to use a later version?

Yes. I've successfully built it with MSVC 2017. I haven't tried 2019 yet.

digital man

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 05:36 pm

It is weird that it only has an issue in ANSI mode. I suspect it's a bug somewhere in the ciolib's ANSI stuff which is causing an exception. I'll have to run it under a debugger in ANSI mode and see if I can catch any exceptions. If you have Visual Studio installed, you might be able to do the same and if you could provide a backtrace, that'd be a huge time saver.

I installed Visual Studio (2019 Community) and started to debug this to get more information, but the problem seems to be fixed now (even with the release binary from the April 28 build). It's no longer exiting for me when I go to the external editor configuration remotely.

Nightfox

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Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Apr 30 2019 10:20 am

Re: Remote SCFG exiting
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Apr 22 2019 05:36 pm

It is weird that it only has an issue in ANSI mode. I suspect it's a bug somewhere in the ciolib's ANSI stuff which is causing an exception. I'll have to run it under a debugger in ANSI mode and see if I can catch any exceptions. If you have Visual Studio installed, you might be able to do the same and if you could provide a backtrace, that'd be a huge time saver.

I installed Visual Studio (2019 Community) and started to debug this to get more information, but the problem seems to be fixed now (even with the release binary from the April 28 build). It's no longer exiting for me when I go to the external editor configuration remotely.

Most likely the problem isn't actually fixed, but just isn't happening now. I've definitely seem "random" crashes/exits of uifc apps (e.g. SCFG) when in "ANSI" mode, but I usually can't reproduce it when I want to debug it. I think the bug is still there somewhere... lurking. Likely in src/conio/ansi_cio.c.

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