[Dxspider-support] Ubuntu 9.04 - console.pl

Dirk Koopman G1TLH gb7tlh at dxcluster.org
Sun Sep 27 11:35:49 BST 2009


Ron Gibson wrote:
> After many years of service my old Mandrake box bit the dust so I 
> decided to build a new machine and use Ubuntu 9.04. Getting Spider 
> restored from a backup and running was quite simple. Over the past 
> couple of weeks I installed all the Ubuntu updates and installed a few 
> other applications. All was well until I had to reboot the system 
> yesterday. Spider runs just fine BUT now console.pl does not. Telnet 
> into it works fine. Logging into a tty on the actual machine and running 
> console.pl I see the screen clear and the bottom status line appear. 
> Then it exits back to the command prompt. Logging in via SSH and running 
> console.pl I don't get anything. It immediately exits back to the prompt.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas as to what I might have broken? Since console.pl 
> worked just fine until I rebooted leads me to think it's a path or 
> environment variable. Removing and reinstalling curses had no effect.
> 

For what it is worth, I run ubuntu 9.04 here. And it works for me.

try: perl -d console.pl

If you get a prompt (and no errors) then type: r <return>
at the prompt and (in either case) report back what happens.

Dirk



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