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  • Mystic A43 to A44 upgrade

    From bcw142@21:1/145 to All on Friday, February 14, 2020 10:13:12
    So after all the instructions in upgrade.txt has anyone got things working again? First /mystic/attach/default (Linux) needs to be made, then Themes fail first thing 'Unable to load a theme'. Not sure how many other 'gotchas' there are, but my Alpha Test is down for now till I figure it out (or put the
    backup back on).

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)
  • From ryan@21:1/168 to bcw142 on Friday, February 14, 2020 08:26:04
    So after all the instructions in upgrade.txt has anyone got things
    working again? First /mystic/attach/default (Linux) needs to be made,
    then Themes fail first thing 'Unable to load a theme'. Not sure how many other 'gotchas' there are, but my Alpha Test is down for now till I
    figure it out (or put the backup back on).

    Did you run the 'upgrade' binary? This does all the work for you, I thought.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A44 2020/02/04 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bcw142 on Friday, February 14, 2020 12:10:04
    So after all the instructions in upgrade.txt has anyone got things
    working again? First /mystic/attach/default (Linux) needs to be made,

    Haven't had any reports of any problems at all from the upgrades.

    You shouldn't have to make any directories. But its hard to say more because
    I don't know what steps you've done or what you're trying to do now.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/13 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to ryan on Saturday, February 15, 2020 15:30:58
    On 14 Feb 2020, ryan said the following...
    Did you run the 'upgrade' binary? This does all the work for you, I thought.

    Yes, maybe doesn't work so well in x64 Linux? Right now it's the theme it
    can't find. I copied it from a new install and that doesn't work either.
    I guess I'll look at the -cfg directories to try and figure that out.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to g00r00 on Saturday, February 15, 2020 15:45:40
    On 14 Feb 2020, g00r00 said the following...
    Haven't had any reports of any problems at all from the upgrades.

    You shouldn't have to make any directories. But its hard to say more because I don't know what steps you've done or what you're trying to do now.

    Yup, no idea what I did, but I seem to have to start from scratch and rebuild. I looked at the paths and found theme listed as /mystic/attach ! I changed
    that to /mystic/themes and got the default setup working. Seems like upgrade doesn't work for me at all - not sure why, but at least I have a starting point.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bcw142 on Saturday, February 15, 2020 15:58:48
    Yes, maybe doesn't work so well in x64 Linux? Right now it's the theme it can't find. I copied it from a new install and that doesn't work either.
    I guess I'll look at the -cfg directories to try and figure that out.

    It works in Linux/64. Can you give us a step by step of what you're doing? You need to be on A43 of Mystic and follow the steps in order from upgrade.txt.

    You shouldn't need to copy anything from a new install and you'll of course need to have ownership rights since you're using Linux so you'll need that or to use SUDO.

    1. Extract Mystic A44 archive to a folder.

    2. Replace existing binaries with the new alpha binaries:
    From A44 folder where archive was extracted:

    Run "install replace <A43 Mystic directory>
    Example: ./install replace /mystic

    3. Install prompts.dat
    From A44 folder where archive was extracted:

    Run "install extract prompts.dat <A43 Mystic DATA directory>
    Example: ./install extract prompts.dat /mystic/data

    4. Switch to root Mystic A43 directory and run upgrade.exe

    cd /mystic
    ./upgrade

    5. MPLC and MIDE depending on where you stored it may need to be copied over or
    moved from a theme directory. From A44 folder where archive was extracted:

    Run "install extract mide <A43 Mystic directory>
    Run "install extract mplc <A43 Mystic directory>

    6. Switch to A43 Mystic directory and recompile MPL programs:

    chmod +x mplc
    chmod +x mide
    mplc -t

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/14 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bcw142 on Saturday, February 15, 2020 16:28:30
    Yup, no idea what I did, but I seem to have to start from scratch and rebuild. I looked at the paths and found theme listed as /mystic/attach
    ! I changed that to /mystic/themes and got the default setup working. Seems like upgrade doesn't work for me at all - not sure why, but at
    least I have a starting point.

    I just tested a fresh A43 install to A44 via upgrade and it worked fine for me in Linux/64.

    I don't know how you have your themes directory set to attach. Upgrade program has a hardcoded themes directory that is set when it runs. If you want to try to figure out where things went wrong let me know.

    Thanks!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/14 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)