PH> On 05/15/18, Phil Kimble pondered and said...

 PK>>  PK>> What I doscovered is that mystic is looking for the mail.ans 
 PK>>  PK>> file in the /default/text directory MOT the /newtheme/text.
 PK>> 
 PK>>  PH> Yep and if you want to see your new menus / ansis etc. you need 
 PK>>  PH> to change the
 PK>>  PH> theme you are using when you are logged in.
 PK>> But I am editing from mystic -cfg >Editors >Theme >Menu >/S >View
 PK>> 
 PK>> Not logged in at all
 PK>> 
 PK>>  PH> Do this by heading to the 'account settings' menu (usually 
 PK>>  PH> option A from the
 PK>>  PH> default main menu) and then select option K 'language' this is 
 PK>>  PH> actually the
 PK>>  PH> option to change the active theme the user is setting.
 PK>> 
 PK>> I will give this a try

 PH> Phil, how did you get on?
It finally clicked.  I removed all reference in mystic -cfg of the default
theme & renamed default directory to defBAK.  NewUser has only one choice &
does not sk for theme.  I basically forced the bbs to use the newTheme.

Mystic complained very loudly about not being able to locate the default theme
in the error log.  Then it complained it couldnt locate the newTheme theme.  A
very stubborn personality.

Then logging in locally took a few attempts before mystic finally picked it up.
  I am not 100% convinced that it is mystic causing the issues, may be the OS
injecting some issues.  But it is a clean installation of Slackware 14_64.

My next challenge is trying to solve the "Unable to find mystic.dat".

 PH> Best, Paul

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