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|    g00r00 to Chris Hizny    |
|    Re: A47 System won't poll / Runtime erro    |
|    29 Sep 21 15:27:25    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:129/215 310ecdc0       REPLY: 1:218/860 02ae6fcb       TZUTC: -0400        CH> Thanks! It turned out the central issue was my system rebooted in the        CH> middle of a poll, leaving corrupt stuff in my echomail folders        CH> (determined this by trying to unzip everything and a bunch of things        CH> would not unzip) which was causing Mystic to soil the proverbial bed.               It sounds like you may have had some sort of corrupted packet of some type       that Mystic couldn't gracefully "fail" with. Do you still have the file MUTIL       was crashing on by chance or any of the files that were clogged up in your       folder? I would like to see if I could use it to reproduce the crash and       handle it more gracefully but I probably wouldn't have anything to go on       without the actual file that was causing MUTIL to crash.               CH> I will remember the killbusy method in the future; I was using a for        CH> loop to find the files and rm them previously.              Yeah this function exists for exactly this purpose. If Mystic gets shutdown       in the middle of doing stuff, sometimes things can get stuck in a weird state.       The killbusy command will clear all that mess up for you to and try to give       you a clean slate, but it should really only be needed in those circumstances.        Mystic is also supposed to "self-heal" after some period of time, but if a       corrupted packet was causing MUTIL to crash over and over it would never been       able to do that - the self healing of course would require it not shitting on       itself before it can heal lol :)              ... No honey, I can't eat with the family. My computer gets lonely!              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/09/23 (Windows/64)        * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 457 616 123/10 131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/215 305 153/757 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/6 226/18 30 227/114 201 702 229/310 424 426 428 452 550       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 981 1017 240/1120 5411 5824 5832 5853 5890 6309       SEEN-BY: 249/206 307 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 633/280 770/1 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 2454/119 3634/12       PATH: 129/215 154/10 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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