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These are the errors I'm getting when trying to launch the control panel after updating to 3.18. Running win 10 32bit. updating from 3.17 to 3.18. I'm back to 3.17 now, as I restored my backup, but I wanted to know what was going on before I start the procedure again. Followed the readme.text to the letter in the update.

One of the codes was duplicate message areas ANN and FLEAMARK. I went back and checked the orig msgs.cnf, and there is one each of those message areas, but after the update, sure enough there are 2 of them in that file of just those 2 areas

The other areas, I have no clue. Below are the errors.

Thu Nov 12 15:20:32 2020
evnt SBL2SMB !JavaScript c:\SBBS\exec\sbbslist.js line 2434: Error: Unrecognized msgbase code: dove-syncdata

Thu Nov 12 15:25:15 2020
srvc 0000 CoA error in cnf init: TypeError: record is undefined

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
ftp !ERROR offset 279785 in msgs.cnf: Duplicate pointer index for subs ANN and FLEAMARK

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
term !ERROR offset 279785 in msgs.cnf: Duplicate pointer index for subs ANN and FLEAMARK

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
term !FAILED to load configuration files

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To: DesotoFireflite
Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sat Nov 14 2020 03:42 pm

These are the errors I'm getting when trying to launch the control panel after updating to 3.18. Running win 10 32bit. updating from 3.17 to 3.18. I'm back to 3.17 now, as I restored my backup, but I wanted to know what was going on before I start the procedure again. Followed the readme.text to the letter in the update.

One of the codes was duplicate message areas ANN and FLEAMARK. I went back and checked the orig msgs.cnf, and there is one each of those message areas, but after the update, sure enough there are 2 of them in that file of just those 2 areas

The other areas, I have no clue. Below are the errors.

Thu Nov 12 15:20:32 2020
evnt SBL2SMB !JavaScript c:\SBBS\exec\sbbslist.js line 2434: Error: Unrecognized msgbase code: dove-syncdata

You don't have a sub-board with an internal code of "dove-syncdata". Do you carry the "syncdata" sub? What it's internal code set to in SCFG? This is nothing new in v3.18.

Thu Nov 12 15:25:15 2020
srvc 0000 CoA error in cnf init: TypeError: record is undefined

No idea, ask the CoA guys? :-)

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
ftp !ERROR offset 279785 in msgs.cnf: Duplicate pointer index for subs ANN and FLEAMARK

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
term !ERROR offset 279785 in msgs.cnf: Duplicate pointer index for subs ANN and FLEAMARK

Thu Nov 12 15:25:20 2020
term !FAILED to load configuration files

Looks like a corrupted msgs.cnf file. Upgrading does not touch your .cnf files unless you run "jsexec update.js". Perhaps just try skipping that step and see what happens.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sat Nov 14 2020 01:45 pm

You don't have a sub-board with an internal code of "dove-syncdata". Do you carry the "syncdata" sub? What it's internal code set to in SCFG? This is nothing new in v3.18.

I carry the syncdata sub, but I haven't changed anything in it for years. I'll go back and check the name, but I'm sure I never changed it.

Looks like a corrupted msgs.cnf file. Upgrading does not touch your .cnf files unless you run "jsexec update.js". Perhaps just try skipping that step and see what happens. --
digital man

I did run jsexec update.js, as that was the last step in the readme file. I'll try it without running that command. I've seen in previous messages that the update doesn't touch the cnf files, just curious, what is the purpose of the jsexec update.js command, what does it do.

Thanks as always for the help.

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To: DesotoFireflite
Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Sat Nov 14 2020 06:42 pm

Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sat Nov 14 2020 01:45 pm

You don't have a sub-board with an internal code of "dove-syncdata". Do you carry the "syncdata" sub? What it's internal code set to in SCFG? This is nothing new in v3.18.

I carry the syncdata sub, but I haven't changed anything in it for years. I'll go back and check the name, but I'm sure I never changed it.

What your syncdata sub's internal code?

Looks like a corrupted msgs.cnf file. Upgrading does not touch your .cnf files unless you run "jsexec update.js". Perhaps just try skipping that step and see what happens. --
digital man

I did run jsexec update.js, as that was the last step in the readme file. I'll try it without running that command. I've seen in previous messages that the update doesn't touch the cnf files, just curious, what is the purpose of the jsexec update.js command, what does it do.

Update.js can actually modify .cnf files indirectly by installing some newer modules. update.js just does some housecleaning to try and make sure an updated BBS will run as expected. You can look at update.js to see the things it does.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sat Nov 14 2020 05:07 pm

Re: Error Codes & Crash after Update to 3.18
By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sat Nov 14 2020 01:45 pm

All is fine now, Had to delete COA to make it work right, so I'll be checking with the COA group to resolve issue. Thanks for the assist.

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