Daydream BBS freezing when launching rexx doors

[cloverskull]

Hey friends,

Bit of an odd one here and I am doubtful anyone else runs this anyway but hoping for a hand

I've tried installing multiple versions of Daydream BBS on multiple versions of Amiga OS. Seemingly any time a Daydream rexx door/script is run, it freezes completely. Has anyone else dealt with this? Is there a known (hopefully obvious) fix? I'd really like to run this software if possible

Thanks!

PS - nothing suspicious in snoopdos. It looks like the rexx script runs with "Ok" and then...nothing. Node is completely frozen. Daydream status is that user is running an external door. I can't kick the user or interact in any way. It hangs the node.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by cloverskull

Hey friends,



Bit of an odd one here and I am doubtful anyone else runs this anyway but hoping for a hand



I've tried installing multiple versions of Daydream BBS on multiple versions of Amiga OS. Seemingly any time a Daydream rexx door/script is run, it freezes completely. Has anyone else dealt with this? Is there a known (hopefully obvious) fix? I'd really like to run this software if possible



Thanks!



PS - nothing suspicious in snoopdos. It looks like the rexx script runs with "Ok" and then...nothing. Node is completely frozen. Daydream status is that user is running an external door. I can't kick the user or interact in any way. It hangs the node.

Can you use that raexx trace console and trace the arexx code? I know with ami-express when arexx doors fail they can lock up the node when they don't exit cleanly

[cloverskull]

Hmm...potentially? :P Can you give some advice how to do this? I'm pretty unfamiliar with rexx honestly.

[-TCB!-]

When setting up rexx doors on /X, I found that quite a few of them seemed to suffer from Y2K issues and wouldn't exit 'gracefully'.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by cloverskull

Hmm...potentially? :P Can you give some advice how to do this? I'm pretty unfamiliar with rexx honestly.

the following shell coimmands should help:


TCO - opens trace console
TCC - closes trace console
TS - start tracing
TE - end tracing


if the trace console is open and tracing is enabled you should see each arexx command executed and be able to step through the code.

[cloverskull]

Thanks! Very helpful, insofar as there was actually no output so it appears the rexx interpreter is the problem in the first place. Not sure how to troubleshoot this one :/

I appreciate the help!

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by cloverskull

Thanks! Very helpful, insofar as there was actually no output so it appears the rexx interpreter is the problem in the first place. Not sure how to troubleshoot this one :/

I appreciate the help!

Sorry i'm not that familiar with daydream but i did find this in the manual:



ARexx interface is external, program called rexx in
Doors/-directory converts ARexx<->DDDP.


that's about as much help as i can be i think.

[cloverskull]

Thanks! I appreciate it. Yeah, it's not super well documented and I'm scratching my head a bit. Alas...

[talybont]

Which version are you using? Is V8.55 the latest?

http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/filegate...ydr/index.html

[cloverskull]

Yeah, that's what I'm using. I _think_ it's the latest but the author's email address no longer works, and the guy he sold the source to says he lost it a while ago and hasn't responded to any of my recent emails :/

For what it's worth, 1.28 and 1.30beta also exhibited this issue for me.

[cloverskull]

Ok, I got it to work. I had to find old Daydream archives to locate some libs that were missing from the later archives and put them in the appropriate places, and also had to put rx in c: . Following that, everything is working great!

I may repackage Daydream in spite of not owning the IP in case other folks intend to install it. Hope that doesn't ruffle any feathers.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by cloverskull

Ok, I got it to work. I had to find old Daydream archives to locate some libs that were missing from the later archives and put them in the appropriate places, and also had to put rx in c: . Following that, everything is working great!

I may repackage Daydream in spite of not owning the IP in case other folks intend to install it. Hope that doesn't ruffle any feathers.

Great that you got it working. Later versions of ami-express rexxdoor seem to need rx to be made resident so I wonder if it's a similar issue with daydream. Have not tried moving it to C: - might give that a try