Hello Tony!

18 Jul 19 07:56, you wrote to me:

 TL> -=> On 07-16-19 16:40, Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-

 JS>> Of late I have been having an issue with "All nodes Busy" or busy
 JS>> files that keep Fidopoll or Mutil from running. Last weekend I
 JS>> was away and when I got home I found that Mystic hadn't polled
 JS>> out in a couple days. I had assumed that Mutil and/or Fidopoll
 JS>> would normally remove the busy file upon program termination.


 TL> I'm curious, what version of Mystic?

Mystic v1.12 A43 2019/03/02

 TL> I know there were versions a
 TL> while ago that had semaphore issues, but the latest (latest is 1.12
 TL> A43) few versions have no issues in this regard.  Also, this assumes a
 TL> clean shutdown of Mystic and its utilities at all times.  My Mystic
 TL> FTN hub runs pretty much hands off these days, and no file locking
 TL> issues.

 TL> It's also possible, though I haven't seen it, that Fidopoll is
 TL> crashing in the middle of doing something.  What do your logs say - is
 TL> there any sign of an incomplete session, just before things go pear
 TL> shaped?  As I said, I haven't seen any stability issues with Mystic or
 TL> its utilities, but just covering all bases.

The error log shows:

2019.16.07 14:04:48 MUTIL 000 Runtime error 1

The Fidopoll log shows:

Jul 12 04:59:03 Connecting to bbs.ouijabrd.net
Jul 12 04:59:03 Using address 65.103.12.161
Jul 12 04:59:03 Connected IPV4 to 65.103.12.161
Jul 12 04:59:03 S: NUL SYS Region 14 IP Server
Jul 12 04:59:03 S: NUL ZYZ Jeff Smith
Jul 12 04:59:03 S: NUL TIME Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:59:03 -0500

The above execution looks to have failed to complete. And there are
no log entries after the above 7/12 entry until the 7/16 entry when
I manually cleared the existing busy files.

Jul 16 13:57:37 FIDOPOLL Version 1.12 A43 2019/03/02
Jul 16 13:57:37 Looking up address "1:261/38" in nodelist
Jul 16 13:57:37 Scanning 1:261/38
Jul 16 13:57:37 Queued 0 files (0 bytes) to 1:261/38

In the Mutil log I get the following log entry times 100 during the
same 7/12-7/16 time period:

-----------------  MUTIL v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 Fri, Jul 12 2019 (loglevel 2)
+ Jul 12 05:08:43  Startup using import.ini
+ Jul 12 05:08:43  Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Jul 12 05:08:43    Waiting for BUSY nodes
+ Jul 12 05:09:43  Results: Cannot import. Some nodes are BUSY in 60.07s
! Jul 12 05:09:43  Status: FATAL
+ Jul 12 05:09:43  Shutdown Normal (0)

Once I made sure no Mystic executables were loaded (Except for MIS) I cleared
the busy files and Fidopoll loaded and polled out fine and then called Mutil
fine.

I checked to make sure I didn't have any events or tasks that might have
caused an overlapping issue.


Jeff


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