Hello Richard!   
      
   On 06.10.17 at 12:18, Richard Menedetter wrote to Martin Foster:   
    RM> 06 Oct 2017 09:29, from Martin Foster -> Richard Menedetter:   
      
    MF>>>> OpenXP 5.0.32 has been released   
    RM>>> Downloaded and updated the 64 bit Linux binary.   
    RM>>> Works ... as soon as I make a netcall it downloads stuff, and   
    RM>>> then I get a black screen. CTRL-C does nothing. If I kill it from   
    RM>>> another terminal, and restart, it works again. Wehn I do a   
    RM>>> netcall to fido I again get a black screen :(((   
    MF>> Sorry to hear this.   
      
    RM> No problem ... I hope we sort it out.   
      
   I'm sure we will ;-)   
      
    RM> Previous version works nicely!   
      
   Excellent :)   
      
    MF>> I have it running on Mageia5(KDE) and Mint18.2(KDE) and I cannot   
    MF>> reproduce  the problem on either distro. Can you please tell me which   
    MF>> distro you're  running it on, thanks.   
      
    RM> Good question ... Debian 8.9.   
      
   OK, thanks.   
      
    MF>> Can you see anything in ~/.openxp/debuglog.txt which may indicate what   
    MF>> the  problem might be?   
      
    RM> A SH*Tload of these lines:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber114 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber121 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber128 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber135 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber142 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber149 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber156 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber163 uarchive:  ufile:   
    RM> 2017-10-06 12:16:29 xpfidonl: NextNumber170 uarchive:  ufile:   
      
   Aha!   
      
    RM> I polled with the old version ... all OK, polled with the new version and   
    RM> I get a black screen and many of the lines above.   
      
    MF>> Has OpenXP created an ERROR.TXT file in ~/.openxp   
    MF>> If it has, can you see anything in there which might be useful?   
      
    RM> That seems to be from a previous problem. (it is from 2016 ;))   
      
    RM> But it seems the issue is in the nodelist updating (xpfidonl).   
      
   That's interesting because just after the previous version(5.0.31) was     
   released, I found a major bug in the nodelist updater: if more than 5     
   consecutive nodediffs needed to be applied, OpenXP would crash. I passed     
   the bug report onto Gunter and he appeared to have fixed it, as I've had     
   no further problems with nodelist updating since his fix. Perhaps this     
   needs further investigation. Can you please post the output of the     
   following commands:   
      
   ls -l ~/.openxp/fido   
      
   ls -l ~/.openxp/files/NODEDIFF.*   
      
    RM> PS: Issue is on my virtual server, I think you might still have an   
    RM> account there.   
      
   I remember you once offered to set me up as a Point but I don't remember     
   us actually going ahead with it :)   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
   --- OpenXP 5.0.32   
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