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   Message 13,955 of 16,010   
   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)   
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